Ventura County Sheriff's Department

Location: US Bank 541 S. Reino Road, Newbury Park
Date & Time/ RB#: Dec. 22, 2009 @ 11:02 a.m. / 09-31340
Unit Responsible: East County Major Crimes Unit

Suspect Address Age
Brearley, Quentin Newbury Park 57

An alert bank employee saw the suspicious man in the parking lot and noticed something familiar about him. He looked just like the man who robbed the US Bank just two weeks earlier. While the employee watched, the man donned a wig and a fake mustache.

Those actions sealed his fate. The employee called the police department, and the man’s preparations to rob the bank for the second time in a month were foiled.

Quentin Brearley was wearing the wig and mustache when deputies arrived and detained him. He also had a note to demand money and had replaced his license plates with plates he had stolen from another car.

Brearley was prepared to carry out another bank robbery but is now in custody, thanks to the decisive actions by an observant citizen.

After being interviewed by major crimes investigators and FBI agents, Brearley was booked for robbery stemming from the incident at the US Bank on Dec. 5, 2009, and for attempted robbery stemming from his behavior on Dec. 22, 2009.