Student Held in String of Thefts Charged With 3 in L.A. County

Jose Luis Razo Jr., the Harvard scholarship student from La Habra who has admitted taking almost $30,000 in armed robberies while on school vacations, was charged Thursday with three robberies in Los Angeles County.

Razo, 20, pleaded innocent earlier this month to 10 counts of armed robbery and one count of attempted escape in Orange County.

He was charged Thursday with robbing the same Round Table Pizza restaurant in Whittier twice--on Aug. 16, 1986, and on Jan. 12, 1987--and with holding up a McDonald’s restaurant on April 1, 1987, near Whittier.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Allen Field accused Razo of taking $3,150 in the three robberies.

In addition to the robbery counts, Razo was charged with six counts of assault with a deadly weapon for brandishing an automatic pistol at employees during the robberies. No one was injured in the holdups.

Razo was arrested July 6 by La Habra police after the former honor student and football star at Servite High School in Anaheim called detectives and said he had information on an unsolved Santa Ana murder.

After investigators determined that he had no new information about the slaying, he was questioned about a string of local holdups and gave answers only the robber could know, police said.

He later told reporters that he had taken nearly $30,000 in various robberies.

Razo is being held at the Orange County Jail on $150,000 bail.