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-rEscaped)rConvictiCaptured-icfCariin Pasadena/One of two men arrested Friday with a car containing: sev-Hiera! illegal firearms turned out1 i to be an escaped convict from .San Quentin, Detective Sgt. J John Marshall said today.iift Wayne O’Dell, 22, six-foot-three escapee from the state prison, where he had been serv-j ing time for kidnaping and r rape, was identified through t i fingerprints.i When patrolman Jordan Ross13Sistopped a car driven by Buddy Gene Prechnau, 29, on Friday, O’Dell said his name was DaveGaspar Gianoni, then later produced a draft card in the nameof Roger Charles Wyman.i\ Ross, alone, stopped Proch-- nau’s car on Fair Oaks Avenue s near Colorado Boulevard after hearing a broadcast description of the auto as one driven by ais5possible parole violator.When Ross approached the car with drawn gun, O’dell. | a passenger, locked the glove compartment and put the key under the floor mat, Marshall said.Two loaded weapons, small caliber automatic pistols, were found in the compartment.Also found in the car were a'e!d;tisawed-off shotgun and a sawed-off rifle, both illegal under federal law. alt;siw)Sgt. Marshall, investigating the background of the suspects, j said there is “very good reasonto believe’ ’ they were suspects ^ of numerous armed robberiesRhlt;-nlt;thit* in the Los Angeles area.Physical evidence found in *|the car, the descriptions of themen and other factors tie them in,” Marshall added. **Also found were various kinds nalS(tij. of ammunition, drugs, needles and a hypodermic syringe. O'Dell appeared to be in a statei,hof narcotics '‘withdrawal,” the detective reported. s| Both men were booked for g; investigation of armed robbery. e'Prochnau. a parolee from San Quentin, was also held for parole violation, , J :aasiei-P1-Additional booking on O’Dell r- included investigation of narcot-° ics use. ;it
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Pasadena, California, US
Sat, May 30, 1964
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