RESEDA : Reward Offered in Robbery at School

By HENRY CHU

Sept. 2, 1992 12 AM PT

The Los Angeles Unified School District is offering a $7,000 reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of two men who robbed a Reseda school official of his Rolex watch and other items at gunpoint in his campus office.

Dmitri Vadetzky, an assistant principal at Reseda High School, was confronted by a gun-wielding robber and an accomplice who entered his office about 2:40 p.m. on Aug. 24 posing as a camp counselor and a potential student. The pair took Vadetzky’s Rolex watch, a gold bracelet and about $250 in cash before fleeing the campus and firing shots into the air, slightly injuring a student.

School police have issued flyers detailing the robbery and encouraging witnesses to come forward.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

RESEDA : Reward Offered in Robbery at School

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