Tip Leads to Reiner’s Car Stolen at Gunpoint by 3 Men

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner’s car, missing for three days since three men abducted his driver outside a Sunset Boulevard restaurant, was found late Thursday in an alley near Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Sheriff’s deputies would say only that detectives and district attorney’s investigators recovered the 1986 Buick Park Avenue after receiving a tip from “a concerned citizen.” They would not disclose any information about the condition of the car.

The radio-equipped vehicle had been abandoned near 3rd Street and George Burns Road, just off the hospital grounds and about a mile and a quarter due south of the fashionable Spago restaurant at 8795 W. Sunset Blvd., where Reiner was dining with his family when the car was taken at gunpoint about 8 p.m. Monday.

Sitting in Vehicle

Reiner’s driver, Dist. Atty.’s Investigator Henry Grayson, was sitting in the car outside Spago when two men reportedly climbed in with him while a third aimed a gun at his head through a window.

Grayson said he was disarmed and driven away while the third man followed in a red, 1973 Mercedes-Benz. He said the men threatened to kill him, but that he managed to escape a short distance away.

The Mercedes was found in East Los Angeles late Tuesday and traced to an owner who, deputies said, was not considered a suspect.

No one was yet in custody late Thursday, investigators said.