Three Who Stop for Bite Are Pinched

Three men who left a bag of cash on a car seat while they stopped for lunch at a Burger King in Garden Grove were arrested there on suspicion of robbing a bank less than an hour earlier, police said.

The robbery had occurred at 10:25 a.m. Tuesday about 20 miles away at the Wells Fargo Bank in the 700 block of South Weir Canyon Road in Anaheim. Three men, two armed with handguns, escaped with a bag of cash in a black sports car, Anaheim Police Lt. Ted Labahn said.

Witnesses described the car to police, who tracked it from a helicopter over the Costa Mesa Freeway to the Garden Grove Freeway and off at Valley View Street, police said.

Just after 11 a.m., three men were spotted at the Burger King in the 12400 block of Valley View Street. They had the keys to a black sports car parked outside, and in the car was a bag of money from the bank, Garden Grove Police Capt. Dave Albrecht said.

Arrested without incident were Michael J. Utley, 23, of Anaheim, Jimmy Dell Willis, 29, of Compton, and Quincy Meloncon, 28, of Compton. The men were being held at Anaheim City Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail each.