'Dust Mask Bandit' Sought In NorCal, Oregon Bank Robberies
Authorities are searching for a man whom they want to question about a string of bank robberies in Northern California and Oregon.
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Authorities are searching for a man whom they want to question about a string of bank robberies in Northern California and Oregon.
An arrest has been made in connection with a series of bank robberies in San Francisco committed by a man dubbed the "Plaid Bandit," FBI officials said Friday.
Santa Clara County sheriff's detectives released several surveillance photos of a man suspected of robbing a U.S. Bank in Cupertino on Wednesday.
Police are searching for a robber who held up a bank blocks from City Hall and made off with thousands of dollars in cash Thursday afternoon, a police spokesman said.
The FBI has arrested a man suspected in 12 "Mr. Magoo" bank robberies in California and Nevada.
The bank robber law enforcement officials have dubbed the "Mr. Magoo Bandit" has struck again.
FBI and San Francisco police officials are seeking the public's help in identifying a man dubbed the "Plaid Bandit" who is linked to four robberies in the city since June 2010.
A man wearing glasses and a baseball cap robbed a Westamerica Bank in Santa Rosa on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
A woman who robbed a bank on San Francisco's Market Street on Tuesday evening was arrested after deciding for an unknown reason to sit down in the bank's lobby instead of fleeing.
The FBI and Bay Area law enforcement are searching for a man known as the "Mr. Magoo Bandit" who is suspected in nine California Bank Robberies.
A South San Francisco bank was robbed by a suspect who presented the teller with a note demanding money this weekend, according to police.
A bank was robbed late Thursday morning in South San Francisco when a man gave a teller a note demanding money and said he had a gun, according to police.
Prosecutors filed charges Friday morning against two men believed to have been involved in an armored car robbery in Pinole on Wednesday that led to a shootout and left one person dead and three injured, including a police officer.
Police arrested a third suspect Wednesday night in connection with an attempted robbery of an armored car in Pinole that led to a shootout between the suspects and a security guard.
Pinole police officer and a security guard were injured during a bank robbery Wednesday morning and, according to initial reports, the alleged robber was killed.
A woman robbed a bank at gunpoint in San Francisco's Inner Sunset neighborhood on Monday afternoon, police said.
Police have linked two of four serial bank robbery suspects arrested in Vacaville on Monday to a recent bank robbery in San Ramon, San Ramon police Lt. Dan Pratt said Wednesday.
Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a woman who has robbed a credit union near San Francisco's Stonestown Galleria Mall twice in the past two weeks.
Police were asking the public to help them identify a man who robbed a Chase Bank in Vacaville on Tuesday afternoon.
A 16-year-old boy suspected in several bank robberies in the East Bay was arrested Wednesday for allegedly robbing a San Leandro bank, police said.
An anonymous tip has helped investigators identify a suspect in the robbery of a Bank of America branch in Santa Rosa on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Police have released a surveillance image of a man who robbed a bank in Santa Rosa Wednesday afternoon and was believed to have fled in a gray SUV. Anyone with information to contact the Santa Rosa Police Department's violence crimes team at (707) 543-3590.
A suspected Southern California bank robber who was fatally shot by San Francisco police after he allegedly tried to run them over near the city's Buena Vista Park on Tuesday evening has been identified by the medical examiner's office as 25-year-old Joshua Smith.
A suspected bank robber who was shot by police Tuesday evening near San Francisco's Buena Vista Park has died, according to police.
Authorities on Wednesday arrested a 51-year-old transient suspected of multiple bank robberies in three counties, including San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.
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