Lafayette police are searching for a man they said entered the Lafayette Bank of America branch at 3530 Mt. Diablo Blvd. a little after 4 p.m. Tuesday and passed a teller a note demanding money from the till.
Investigators said the suspect, described as a white or Hispanic male, 25 to 35 years of age, 5'10" - 6' tall, with a large mole on his right cheek, was wearing a dark brown long sleeve t-shirt, blue jeans, a red or brown colored baseball cap and sunglasses. No weapon was seen.
It is believed the suspect left the area on foot, Lafayette police said, and additional officers from Orinda and Moraga, along with deputy sheriffs from the Contra Costa Office of the Sheriff, assisted in the search. Officers initially asked that area BART trains be held while a search was conducted, but the suspect was not found.
Anyone with any information regarding the identity of this suspect or on this case is asked to contact the Lafayette Police Department tipline at (925) 299-3230.
I hope they catch the perps who took my money! ;D
Go get the bad guys.
good thing he was on foot, otherwise he would have been caught getting a speeding ticket!
Now, an ATM robber is a totally different breed of person. Those folks are alarmingly violent.
Better to run a Ponzi scheme.
Ultimately, it is a business decision for banks. Bullet proof barriers used to be more common (still common in high crime cities), but banks prefer to take the risk and accept the losses in exchange for a friendlier atmosphere.... It isn't realistic to expect cops to deter (other than via better post-crime conviction rates) crime for businesses that have a known policy of giving out cash to whoever asks.....
JD follow the lead of Napa Patch and add crime stoppers to the police feed. Make it easy to locate the pic of this robber and the contractor on the lam.
I suppose one must tweak up with caffeine before robbing a bank. Is shoplifting a problem at Starbucks? I did not know that. This creep is robbing my home town bank. These kinds of incidents, including the "last straw" horrifying and unforgettable experience of arriving home one night, interrupting four black men in the process of robbing my Berkeley Uplands home of Asian carpets, computers, TVs, stereos, etc. are the reason I moved out here. Hence the user name, "ex-Berkeley-ite." [The would-be thieves were caught; they'd been hitting Piedmont homes as well.] Out-of-town opportunistic crime is on the up-tick here, too, sad to say.