People v. Giles CA2/4

BACKGROUND

At around 1:00 p.m. on September 8, 2011, Jung Woolsey and Keith Emstrom were working at a branch of U.S. Bank located in a Vons supermarket in Agoura Hills. Woolsey, the bank manager, was on the telephone and had turned around to put something behind the bank counter when she heard a loud thump. When she turned back, she saw a man inside the employee’s section of the bank, holding a gun. He pointed the gun at her and told her to get on the ground. She complied. Emstrom, who also was on the telephone, saw the man coming over the counter with the gun. After forcing Woolsey down to the ground, the man came over to Emstrom, ripped the telephone out of Emstrom’s hand, put the gun on top of Emstrom’s head and shoved him to the ground. The man told Woolsey and Emstrom to open their cash drawers and coin vaults, and both complied. He emptied both cash drawers into a bag on the counter, which was being held by 3 The court had also imposed a 10-year gang enhancement on the felon in possession count, to be served concurrently, but in a nunc pro tunc order issued on February 19, 2013, it indicated it intended to remove that enhancement. The trial court had received a letter from…