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Daniel Luther Campbell was arrested on suspicion of bank robbery after bank security officers assisted police in tracking the suspected robber to a local hotel.
According to a release, Campbell allegedly approached a teller with a handwritten note and demanded money. He told the teller he had a gun and kept his hand in his coat pocket during the robbery, but did not display a gun.
The teller gave him an undisclosed amount of money, and the suspect then fled on foot, in the direction of a local motel.
Police were alerted and found Campbell shortly after checking the motel. Campbell was found inside a room without a gun but with the stolen money.
Police took Campbell to West Medical Center Anaheim, where he is being treated for an unrelated medical condition, according to the release.
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A second suspect has been charged in the takeover bank robbery in Minneapolis on July 28.
Michael Deon Hughes, 23, faces first-degree aggravated robbery in connection to the holdup at the US Bank at 4930 34th Ave. S.
Hughes was arrested after a security guard at Block E spotted him over the weekend and notified police. Officers were able to apprehend Hughes after he boarded a Metro Transit bus.
Investigators believe Hughes and three other men are behind a series of robberies that have grown increasingly more violent—including two prior holdups of the same US Bank on April 13 and May 8.
Lt. Mike Fossum, commander of the Minneapolis Police Robbery Unit, says in each case, armed men entered the bank around closing time, ordered customers and employees to the ground and jumped the counter to collect cash.
In the most recent heist, Fossum said the crew of three robbers added a fourth man; used two rifles for the first time; and attacked a bank employee, punching a female clerk and knocking her to the ground. Two of the men covered their faces. All wore cotton or latex gloves so as to not leave any fingerprints, police said.
Police tracked down Curtis Devone Williams, 29, of Minneapolis, because the first of two get-away vehicles used in the July 28 robbery—a gray Mercury Sable—was registered to his address. Police found the Sable after a witness called police when she saw four men ditch the sedan and hop into a black Dodge Charger in the 2300 block of East 34th Street.
The two other suspects have not been arrested and the Dodge Charger has still not been located.
Williams has also been charged with aggravated robbery.
Anyone with information about the robbery or the Dodge Charger should call the Minneapolis Police Department’s Robbery Unit at (612) 673-2941.
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According to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, Herbert Bines, 52, robbed the Wachovia Bank at 4111 N. Tryon St. at 9:30 a.m. He allegedly slipped the bank teller a note, took the money and fled.
Capt. Mike Smathers, with CMPD, said there was a dye pack in with the money, and Bines was caught very soon after near the North Tryon Division substation, next door to the bank in a building that also houses a library and a Joblink office.
“I can only speculate that he just thought he was going to get captured, so he surrendered to an officer,” Smathers said.
Customers coming by the bank Friday afternoon found the doors locked, and were surprised to learn what had transpired.
Customer Madie Smith said, “You got to be kidding. Someone would be that dumb? That ignorant? Really.”
Eyewitness News is waiting to learn from the FBI, which has jurisdiction in bank robbery cases, exactly what charges Bines will face.
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Dayton OH March 25 2009
Serial bank robber Roderick Sample walked into the U.S. Bank in downtown Dayton yesterday and handed a teller a note-”this is a robbery-give me all of the hundred dollar bills, I’ve got a weapon”.
He had done this at least three times before at other banks and it always worked.
But Tuesday morning would be different for Sample as the teller hit a silent alarm and was able to notify a security officer that a robbery was in progress.
Security officer William Kedler immediately confronted the robbery suspect and was able to detain him without incident until police arrived and took him into custody.
Police say Sadler was a wanted fugitive on parole for bank robbery and is suspected of robbing at least three banks and committing other crimes in the community before his arrest on Tuesday.Police had been looking for him for several months.
Officer Kedler said he was just doing his job and was surprised that Sampler gave up without a fight. I had him sit in a chair and stood over him until other officers got here.
Police say the quick response of Kedler in containing the suspect and preventing his escape was an act of bravery.
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Police reported that a security officer was approached by a gunman who tried to rob him at the Peoples Bank, 680 NE 124th St., at 7 a.m. March 9.
According to authorities, the security guard parked his 2004 GMC Yukon and went to open the rear door of the bank and turn on the lights. As the guard started back outside, a man pointed a gun and tried to push him back inside the bank. The guard was able to get away from the armed man and run away to his car as the robber followed and the two struggled some more. Police say that the guard pulled out his gun and fired shots into the air to scare away the robber. The robber then fired his gun before getting in a dark-colored Mercedes-Benz and speeding away. The guard was not hurt.
Police said they are still investigating the attmepted robbery but no one has been arrested in the incident thusfar.
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http://www.privateofficer.com/ Des Moines police said that quick action by a Des Moines school security officer helped them make an arrest in a Friday bank robbery.
Police said the First Bank at 3401 SW 9th St. was robbed at 12:20 p.m.
Police said about 40 minutes later a Garry Fuller, a Des Moines school board security officer, was patrolling the area when he noticed a vehicle matching the description of one that the police were looking for in the bank robbery.
Police said the three people in the car were taken to the police station for questioning.
Detectives said that they have charged Damon Gaines, 27, of Des Moines, with first-degree robbery. Gaines is being held in the Polk County Jail at this time without bond.
Police credit security officer Fuller with his quick actions which led to a speedy arrest in the robbery.
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foxnews.com – Police say the person who robbed a McLean bank on Wednesday was a teenager from Arlington.
Investigators say the 19-year-old suspect, Hailu Brook, went to Yorktown High School.
Police say that around noon on Wednesday, Fairfax Police were called to the BB&T Bank on Old Dominion Drive in McLean for a bank robbery. Officers were alerted to a crash at Old Dominion Drive and Valley Wood Road, not far away in Arlington. According to police, the suspect ran from the scene when police caught up with him, and when he showed a gun, officers opened fire, killing him.
Students are in disbelief that Brook was the person police shot and killed on Wednesday after he robbed the bank. His friends noticed he wasn’t in class on Wednesday or Thursday, but word spread throughout the day that he was the person behind the robbery and chase through nearby neighborhoods.
Brook had been a student at Yorktown High for the last three months, and he was a junior.
“Today in my math class, someone went online and figured out that it was him,” said Virginia Shutler, a fellow Yorktown student.
“All my friends today were so upset,” said Hannah Adams, another student. “He was in a lot of our classes. I have a couple friends that had him in photo class, and they all say he was the nicest guy ever.”
Lucy Sgroi sat next to Brook in one of her classes, and she says she considered him a friend.
“He told me that he wanted to go to GW University and that he wanted to be a diplomat for the United States,” said Sgroi.
“He was very nice, always said hi to everybody,” said Nick Gunn, another Yorktown student. “Didn’t have a problem with anybody.”
Brook had family members living in both McLean and Arlington. All of them were too distraught to talk about their death of their loved one on Thursday.
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Investigators are still looking into a kidnapping of an area bank manager and robbery of a bank. Many questions remain unanswered police said early Friday morning.
What they do not know is how the men got to Booth’s house in the first place.
“There’s a lot of unanswered questions at this point,” said Thomas Hejl, Calvert County assistant sheriff. “It’s a very, very, very strange occurrence as to how it appears.”
Booth’s neighbors have told investigators they saw nothing unusual Wednesday morning, and police canvassing the area found no abandoned vehicles. The neighbor who lives across the street from Booth said he saw her come out and load some things into her sport-utility vehicle before going back inside for her children. He turned his attention away before she came back out.
I see her coming down the steps to go to the truck,” said Richard Womer, 40, said. “There was no cars or nothing.”
Police are still searching for the men involved in the incident. Investigators said Booth has been “totally cooperative” and has said she did not know her abductors.
“She’s answered every question we’ve asked of her,” said Detective Sgt. Michael Moore of the Calvert Investigative Team, a collaboration between the state police and the county sheriff’s office.
After interviewing Booth until late Wednesday, investigators turned their attention to her 5-year-old daughter. Moore said investigators would use an FBI agent specializing in child interviews to talk to the girl. Lt. Rick Burris, commander of the St. Mary’s County Bureau of Criminal Investigations, said investigators talked to the girl Wednesday night. He declined to provide details.
According to police, two men — one armed with a rifle or shotgun and both wearing camouflage shirts and ski masks — approached Booth at her home before 7 a.m. They forced Booth, 27, and her two children — an 18-month-old son and her daughter — into her blue Chevrolet Tahoe, and one of them drove to the PNC Bank in St. Mary’s where Booth is a manager.
At some point, they pulled alongside a black Nissan Sentra with at least one person inside, and that car followed the Tahoe briefly, Moore said.
Holding the 18-month-old hostage in the car, the men forced Booth to go into the bank with her daughter and remove an undisclosed amount of money, police said. She left the daughter with a bank employee, who called 911, and she returned to the Tahoe, police said.
The men eventually dropped off Booth and her son at an elementary school and abandoned the Tahoe at a CVS drugstore in Lexington Park, authorities said.
PNC Bank is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspects. Anyone with information is asked to call St. Mary’s detectives at 240-434-2754 or 301-475-3333 or Calvert detectives at 410-535-2800
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Alabama State Troopers say that officers were on the look out for the bank robbery suspect when officers encountered the man and as they tried to take him into custody they were put into a position where they had to defend themselves.
As Sheriff’s Office investigators analyzed the scene, the man’s body remained under a blue tarp in a drainage ditch by the interstate, several yards from the white Chevrolet C1500 truck he had been driving.
“The officers were forced to shoot him,” said Maj. Anthony Lowery, Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office spokesman.
A handgun and other weapons were recovered from the suspect’s body, he said. Still, it remained unclear whether the suspect had fired at the officers before being shot, Lowrey said.
The suspect’s name and other identifying information were not released pending notification of his relatives, Lowery said.
The Loxley patrolmen involved in the incident were placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation by the Sheriff’s Office, Daphne Police and the county district attorney’s office, investigators said.
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Joliet man apparently attempted to kill himself after he allegedly robbed a bank Thursday and then used money from the heist to purchase lottery tickets at a nearby gas station, authorities said.
Jack R. Menolascina, 48, was charged with aggravated robbery but was taken to Silver Cross Hospital for “an evaluation,” police said.
Menolascina may have been intoxicated, police said.
“While he was waiting in the [police] interview room, he took off the shirt he had and tried to strangle himself,” said Deputy Police Chief Patrick Kerr. “Our detectives saw this on the monitors and stopped him.”
Police were first alerted to the suspect when they were called to the Bank of America at Jefferson Street and Stryker Avenue on reports of a robbery at 11:29 a.m.
“He came in, demanded money and said he was armed with a gun,” Kerr said.
The robber left the bank on foot. No one was injured.
Three minutes later, an officer spotted Menolascina behind a gas station in the shopping plaza on the opposite corner from the bank.
“He had just purchased $10 of scratch-off lottery tickets inside,” Kerr said.
“Menolascina was very apprehensive when the officer approached him,” Kerr said. “He was placed in handcuffs. The officer patted him down and found he was carrying a large amount of currency in a bank wrap.”
Officers took the suspect back to the bank and interviewed him in a squad car in the parking lot as detectives spoke with witnesses inside the bank.
Menolascina lives in the 300 block of North Larkin Avenue in Joliet, police said.
Internet records indicate Menolascina is a 1978 graduate of Glenbard North High School who was married in Will County in 2003. Menolascina also recently went to arbitration for a workers compensation claim against Safeway Services Inc. over an accident in October 2006
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The security officer was transported and treated for minor injuries at an area hospital and was discharged. His name was not released by police either.
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But a call to Crime Solvers tipped police to the location of the man wanted for bank robbery.
Police, acting on that tip were able to take James Crowder, 20, into custody and he was arrested at a hotel in Richmond on Sunday.
Authorities say he went through the drive-through and robbed Gateway Bank on Independence Blvd. around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday
Police say Crowder sent a note to the teller in the drive-thru tube which said he was armed with a gun and he demanded money.
Police say the car he was driving, a white four-door Lexus, had been reported stolen from Hampton.
Crowder, of Herbert Drive in Norfolk, is charged with robbery and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
He is being held at the county jail on an undisclosed bond amount at this time.
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At least one shot was fired during the confrontation at the Wells Fargo Bank at 6800 Van Nuys Blvd., apparently grazing the guard on the arm.
Police described patrons’ actions as “heroic” and credited them with possibly saving the guard’s life.
“We don’t recommend people engaging armed suspects but that’s a decision made by individuals at the time,” Los Angeles police Capt. Jim Miller said. “It’s a good chance they saved the guard’s life.”
The suspect, described only as a white male around 40 years old, walked into the bank shortly after noon and was soon confronted by one of the unarmed security guards, police said.
Some witnesses said he appeared to be wearing some kind of disguise, possibly a wig, fake beard and an oversized coat.
He was about 20 feet inside the bank when the struggle began, Miller said.
“When he was confronted … the gun came out, and then there was a scuffle,” LAPD Capt. Kelly Mulldorfer said.
Rafael Lara, 18, of North Hollywood, said the suspect pulled a gun from a bag and pistol-whipped the guard, cutting his forehead.
The two men wrestled, and the suspect shot off one round, Lara said.
“I was walking in right behind the robber, and I thought he was looking all suspicious,” Lara said. “I thought robbery, but it’s too rare to see one.”
At least three men and one woman rushed to help the guard, and one of the patrons managed to wrest control of the weapon away from the man, witnesses said.
“The people inside the bank jumped on the robber and were hitting and beating him, trying to get the gun,” Lara said.
Another customer, Napoleon Moreno, 35, of Van Nuys, was in line when he heard a gunshot.“I turned around and said, `What is happening?”‘ Moreno said. “I saw three or four people on the floor fighting. The guys were yelling, `Put the gun down!”‘
Jesus Orozco, 55, of Panorama City, said one man grabbed the suspect from behind. Orozco said he grabbed the suspect’s legs.
Orozco said he saw a gun magazine fly out during the scuffle.
“People were crying. There were three to four kids there,” Orozco said.
The guard suffered lacerations to his head and a possible gunshot graze wound to an arm, Miller said. The suspect also was injured, although it did not appear serious, Miller said.
Both men were taken to area hospitals and were reported to be in stable condition, Miller said. The suspect’s identity was not released.
“The customers were very instrumental in bringing about arrest of the suspect,” Miller said. “It was a good, knockdown fight between the security guard and the suspect. It appears the suspect was beginning to gain the upper hand, and the customers came in to assist.”
Orozco said the suspect was wearing a wig and a big jacket. Another witness described him as wearing a fake beard. Police could not confirm reports of a disguise.
Bank officials declined to comment. A representative from the security company also did not want to comment, saying, “We haven’t spoken to the family.”
Orozco, who was talking to a bank staffer in the loan department at the time of the incident, marveled that he played a part in apprehending a criminal.
“To be all of a sudden involved in a crime, that’s amazing,” Orozco said. “It’s not only amazing, it’s pretty scary.”
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William Singletary has had at least 24 mug shots snapped at Lee County Jail.
Since 1985, jail doors have been revolving for the 44-year-old, accused over the years of at least 147 offenses, according to court records.
So when authorities captured him Friday, accused of committing a bank burglary while out on $38,500 bail for 12 others, it wasn’t exactly shocking.
Sgt. Larry King, spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said deputies are used to seeing the same names inked in the booking sheets.
“But it’s usually more so after the sentencing phase that they will be released, reoffend and come back,” he said.
“You just hope bond is set so they won’t go out and do it again.”
Singletary’s bond for the latest offense was automatically set at $3,000 Friday, but then he appeared in front of a judge and was denied the chance to get out again before trial.
Lee Circuit Judge Thomas Reese, overseeing Singletary’s most recent cases, was not available for comment Friday. The listed number for Singletary’s only current listed attorney, Cortes Rebecca Acosta, was disconnected, as was the last known number for Singletary’s residence. Both bail bonds companies that combined efforts to have him released declined to comment Friday.
Singletary’s most recently attempted heist, according to deputy Martin Cook, targeted the Royal Palm Bank on Winkler Road in Fort Myers. The method mirrored that of previous break-ins: enter at night, grab whatever is within reach and bolt.
At Royal Palm, it was an alarm that attracted the attention of deputies, who found a window smashed and $655 in rolled coins missing.
His month of freedom had ended.
Representatives from the banks either declined to comment or did not return calls.
The state attorney’s office is consolidating several of his charges so all his individual cases won’t bog down the courts.
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Tossing money from their getaway car, two suspected bank robbers led police on a high-speed chase through East Meadow on Friday that virtually shut down Nassau University Medical Center and nine schools, Nassau police said.
As the suspects turned right on Front Street, they threw loose bills from the windows, police said.The suspects then drove onto Hempstead Turnpike and tossed more money as they turned onto hospital grounds.
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The FBI and Harris Bank are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the April 10 robbery of a branch of the bank in Gary.
When they left the bank, the robbers were seen getting into a 1988 GMC Sierra two-door pickup truck, the release says. The truck was burgundy/silver and had an Indiana license plate.
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With a derby and a blond wig stashed in his getaway car, a New York City police officer robbed a bank in Pennsylvania on Thursday and made off with $113,000 before he was arrested, according to the police and a criminal complaint.
The police in Muhlenberg Township, Pa., said the officer, Christian A. Torres, 21, of Woodhaven, Queens, robbed a Sovereign Bank branch in the township just after 8 a.m. He was charged with robbery, ordered held in $500,000 bail and suspended from the New York force.
One of the arresting officers, Christopher A. Orvech of the Muhlenberg police, said a man wearing a black suit approached a bank employee outside the branch at 8:11 a.m. and asked her about mortgage rates. She told him she would help him when the bank opened. He then turned away, but when the employee entered the bank, he pushed his way in, Officer Orvech said. An employee already at her desk saw the disturbance and triggered a silent alarm, he said.
The robber then ordered the employees into the vault; he ordered one employee, at gunpoint, to put money in a shopping bag, and threatened to harm the workers, the criminal complaint said. The robber then fled.
Officer Orvech, who said he was in his patrol car when he heard about the bank alarm, arrived to find a man dressed in business attire leaving the bank with a full plastic bag.
“He looked just like a regular customer,” he said.
As the man got into a car and started to drive away, Officer Orvech said, he noticed that the license plate was turned backward so the numbers were facing the bumper. A bank employee pointed to the car, and Officer Orvech pulled it over.
The driver, who said he had just come out of a CVS store, said he was a New York City police officer, showing his badge and identification, Officer Orvech said. He found a 9-millimeter Glock handgun in the man’s waistband and discovered the wig, the derby and a CVS bag with bundles of cash on the floor of the vehicle, Officer Orvech said. The police said it was not clear whether Officer Torres had intended to use the wig and the hat as a disguise.
As he was being handcuffed, “he was very calm, almost like he was going to talk his way out of it,” Officer Orvech said. Officer Torres was charged with two counts of robbery, assault, theft, as well as other counts, the police complaint said.
The most serious charge, felony robbery, carries a prison sentence of 10 years or more, said Judge Dean R. Patton of Berks County Magisterial District Court in Reading, Pa., who set bail at $500,000.
Judge Patton scheduled a preliminary hearing for April 21. Officer Torres was being held in the Berks County Prison.
Paul J. Browne, a New York Police Department spokesman, said Officer Torres had been suspended from the force. He joined the department in July 2007 and was assigned to the Brooklyn transit bureau, Mr. Browne said. The New York department is also investigating the robbery.
The police union in New York City, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, declined to comment.
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ATLANTA METRO AREA OCT. 25, 2007
Retirement costs must be going up faster than we think.
Police say a man who appears to be his 50s or 60s strolled into a SunTrust Bank in Suwanee at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, a handgun in his waistband, and slipped a note demanding money to a teller.
“He looks like a grandpa,” said Capt. Clyde Byers, spokeswoman for the Suwanee Police Department. “What is somebody his age out doing this for? He’s supposed to be in retirement. He’s supposed to be fishing.”
The man left after receiving an undisclosed sum of money from the bank, on Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road in northern Gwinnett County, Byers said.
Investigators hope someone recognizes the suspect.
“If he’s from anywhere in metro Atlanta,” Byers said, “somebody’s gonna look up and say ‘Hey, that’s Uncle John!”
Anyone with information on the identity of the robber is asked to contact the Suwanee Police Department at 770-945-8995.
Decatur man was in jail without bond Monday after police said he tried to rob customers at a drive-thru ATM in Lawrenceville.
Abdul Shaheen El-Amin, 31, confronted a man and woman who drove up to the ATM at the Bank of America at 2800 Lawrenceville Suwanee Road on Saturday night, said Cpl. Illana Spellman, spokeswoman for the Gwinnett County Police Department. When El-Amin pulled out a gun and pointed it at the two people, a police officer intervened and shot the suspect in the arm, said Spellman. Authorities said the bank was already under police surveillance.
El-Amin ran into the woods behind the bank, but a tracking dog helped officers locate and arrest him a short time later. El-Amin was treated for his injury and released Sunday from Gwinnett Medical Center. He was being held without bond Monday on one count of armed robbery at the Gwinnett County Detention Center.
Spellman said members of the Gwinnett County Robbery Task Force had the Bank of America branch under surveillance because there had been four prior reports of armed robberies in the area. Investigators had predicted with 98 percent certainty that another robbery would occur at that bank location by Sunday using statistical analysis, said Spellman.
The officer who shot the suspect will be placed on routine administrative leave, according to a news release.
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HAMMOND IND. Oct. 24, 2007 Two men got away with an undisclosed amount of cash from a Hammond bank Monday morning after stealing the gun of a security guard and handcuffing him.
According to FBI Special Agent Wendy Osborne, two men entered Harris Bank, 7227 Calumet Ave. at 9:11 a.m. One of the men immediately took control of the security guard and took the security guard’s gun and handcuffed him while the other vaulted the counter and took money from one of the teller drawers.No customers were inside the bank at the time and no one was injured in the incident.”They were in and out of the bank very quickly, some said in 45 seconds,” Osborne said.
Bank employees were not able to see the escape route of the two men, she said, but a customer outside the bank said he saw a red, four-door Saturn leaving the parking lot at a high rate of speed. Osborne said it is unclear whether that car is connected to the bank robbery or not.Investigators have surveillance camera images of the men in question.The suspect who took the guard’s weapon was described as a black male in his 20s, 5-feet 9-inches tall weighing 170 pounds wearing all black clothing and carrying a semi-automatic weapon.The man who vaulted the counter is described as a black male between 20 and 28, 5-feet 8-inches tall weighing 160 to 170 pounds with a medium build wearing all black clothing and white gloves possibly made of Latex.
The same bank was hit by robbers in June, but Osborne said authorities do not believe there is any connection between that crime and Monday’s.
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