Arson is among the charges, in addition to kidnapping, capital murder, robbery and sexual assault.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has a special squad stationed in the city just for this, dubs LA "the bank-robbery capital of the world".
"Welcome to the bank robbery capital of America": Renner plays a troubled criminal in this crime drama directed by and starring Ben Affleck.
There are 900 miles of highway in sprawling LA, which helped to make it the bank robbery capital of the world in the 1990s: "every city blooms with the kinds of crime most appropriate to its form".
That was the same year that Los Angeles, once considered the bank robbery capital of the U.S., lost that distinction to Atlanta.
How glamorous can you get?" Shayne's flair for theatrics meant that he stood out even in Montreal, a city that had become home to as many as 900 bank heists annually, and was once labeled by the LA Times as "the bank robbery capital of North America".
The teenagers, who ranged in age from 15 to 17 at the time of the June 2001 crimes, have been charged with capital murder, riot and robbery and are to be tried as adults.
After a one-and-a-half day trial, the jury found Kuenzel guilty and he was convicted of capital murder during a robbery in the first degree.
Mobile phones now make up 70 per cent of personal robberies in the capital.
According to police statistics for 2010, the most recent available, street robberies in the capital doubled compared with 2009, robberies of taxi drivers nearly quadrupled and homicides were up 50 percent.
