Two men aboard party bus held in Huntington Beach store robbery

Jan. 9, 2017 11:30 AM PT

Police pulled 80 people off a party bus cruising down Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach on Saturday night and arrested two men who they suspect were involved in a robbery at 7-Eleven.

Huntington Beach police received a call shortly after 11 p.m. about a large group of people who went into a 7-Eleven at 706 Pacific Coast Hwy. and allegedly stole items from the store and assaulted the clerk, authorities said.

The group then got into a party bus and headed north on the highway, the caller told police.

Soon after getting the call, police pulled over a party bus on the highway near the 7-Eleven. Investigators questioned all 80 people aboard and found seven loaded handguns on the bus, authorities said.

Officers arrested Isiah Bryant, 21, a Los Angeles resident, and Wynzel Worthan, 18, a Compton resident, on suspicion of robbery. Everyone else on the bus was released.

Soumya Karlamangla writes for the Los Angeles Times.

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Soumya Karlamangla

Soumya Karlamangla previously covered healthcare in California for the Los Angeles Times. She was part of the team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack. Before joining The Times in 2013, she worked for the Oregonian, San Francisco Chronicle, Nation magazine in D.C. and Thomson Reuters in London. She was raised in Thousand Oaks and graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in biology and English literature.

Hannah Fry

Hannah Fry covers breaking news for the Los Angeles Times. She most recently covered Orange County for The Times and has written extensively about criminal trials, housing, politics and government. In 2020, Fry was part of the team that was a Pulitzer finalist for its coverage of a boat fire that killed 34 people off the coast of Santa Barbara. Fry came to The Times from the Daily Pilot, where she covered coastal cities, education and crime. An Orange County native, Fry started her career as an intern at the Orange County Register.