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From the City’s Crime Summary:
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Robbery
Today at 1:05 PM the Bank of America was robbed on N. Summit Avenue. A white male approached the teller and implied he had a gun and demanded money. He fled out the front door and headed toward E. Diamond Avenue. Handled by Montgomery County Police Robbery Section.
This is the same bank that was robbed about six weeks ago:
3/6/2007
Armed Robbery of Bank of America in Gaithersburg
Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Major Crimes Division - Robbery Section and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are investigating a bank robbery that occurred yesterday evening in Gaithersburg.
At about 7:45 p.m., Gaithersburg City and 6th District police officers responded to the Bank of America located at 22 N. Summit Avenue in Gaithersburg, for the report of a bank robbery that had just occurred. The preliminary investigation revealed that a teller of the bank had just left the remote drive-thru building, and was opening her car door, when she was approached by a suspect, who grabbed her and displayed a handgun. She was ordered back into the remote drive-thru building, and cash was demanded. The victim complied, and the suspect fled out of the door in an unknown direction.
The victim also reported that she noticed a second suspect standing near the ATM of the main bank building, close to N. Summit Avenue, possibly as a lookout. It is possible that the two were driving a light-colored, older model, boxy-type car, such as a Toyota Camry or Toyota Corolla.
The suspects are described as follows: Suspect #1 is a black male, 25 years of age, 5’4” to 5’8” tall, weighing 150 pounds. He was wearing a dark hooded jacket and carrying a handgun. Suspect #2 is a black male, 25 years of age, 5’8” tall, wearing a plaid, short-sleeved, button-down shirt.
Anyone who has information about this bank robbery or the suspects is asked to call the Major Crimes Division – Robbery Section at 240-773-5100. Those who wish to remain anonymous may call Crime Solvers of Montgomery County toll-free at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477). Crime Solvers will pay a cash reward of up to $1,000 for information provided to them that leads to an arrest and/or indictment in these crimes.
*** No surveillance video is available at this time.***
I heard that someone had been arrested for yesterday’s robbery. Can that be confirmed?
Possible, however a quick check of the court records (as of around 9:45 this morning) doesn’t turn up any robbery arrests in the past day, and there’s nothing about an arrest on either the City or the County crime pages. It could just be too early for it to be posted, however.
So I must ask–is OK to have armed robberies across the street from an elementary school? Or could this actually be a real saftey issue for Olde Towne residents? Code Blue two days in a row must be part of a new city government educational plan–make the outside environment so threatening that students want to live at school 24 hours a day.
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