Eight Banks Robbed In Citywide Spree; Police Search For Suspect
In all reported incidents, the suspect allegedly approaches a teller at the bank, slips them a note and then demands money, police said.
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In all reported incidents, the suspect allegedly approaches a teller at the bank, slips them a note and then demands money, police said.
Police and the FBI were searching Friday night for a man and woman who robbed a bank at gunpoint in Ozone Park, Queens.
Long Island bank customers and employees faced real danger during a bank heist and shootout in Franklin Square this week.
A security guard shot and wounded a suspect during a bank robbery in Franklin Square, Long Island late Thursday afternoon.
A GPS device was planted in the stolen cash, which enabled police to track the suspects.
A wheelchair-bound man has been charged for the second time in less than a year with robbing a bank in Queens, prosecutors said Tuesday.
A former high school football player in New Jersey had seemingly everything going for him, but on Tuesday night, he was under arrest and charged in a bank robbery.
Police on Monday were searching for a suspect who held up a bank in the middle of the afternoon in Patchogue.
Police on Tuesday arrested a man in the robbery of a bank last week in Shirley, Long Island.
Police have arrested a man who they say robbed a bank in Queens while in a wheelchair.
Cameras captured the suspect at the counter of the Santander bank on Broadway just after 2 p.m. Monday, police said.
A search was under way Monday night for suspect tin a wheelchair who held up a bank in Astoria, Queens.
Harry Schnitzer, 71, pleaded guilty in December to robbing Santander Bank in Boonton in April of last year.
Police are looking for a man wanted in connection with five bank robberies in Queens and Brooklyn since 2012.
According to authorities, the suspect walked into the bank on Columbus Avenue between 67th and 68th streets around 4:25 p.m. and demanded money.
Police Friday evening were searching for a woman who allegedly robbed a bank in Holbrook, Long Island.
A woman believed to be the wig-wearing bandit responsible for an armed bank robbery in Glen Rock, New Jersey has been caught, according to officials.
Suffolk County police said Brian Blackford entered a TD Bank on Deer Park Avenue just before 1:15 p.m. Sunday and gave the teller a note that demanded cash.
Police are investigating if a woman who robbed a Darien, Connecticut bank Tuesday is connected to two other robberies.
Twomey had been stopped on the Northern State Parkway in Lake Success on Feb. 15 and was arrested on drug and driving charges.
New Jersey police are on the hunt for an armed bank robbery suspect wearing a wig who they say got away with a whole lot of cash.
Police on Tuesday were investigating the afternoon robbery of a bank in Nesconset, Long Island.
Police Saturday evening were asking for help from the public in finding a suspect in a bank robbery in Middle Village, Queens.
Police in Greenwich, Connecticut were on the hunt Friday night for an unusual bank robber.
Police on Thursday were searching for a suspect in the robbery of a bank in the South Bronx.
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