Reward for serial bank robber grows to $8,000 after 9 heists
Law-enforcement officers hope the public can help them find a man they say has robbed nine TD Bank branches in less than five months — two of them in Central Florida.
A reward has been increased to $8,000 for information leading to the arrest of the serial bank robber, police and the FBI announced Friday.
Investigators hope the reward and electronic billboards along Interstate 4 publicizing the robberies will spur someone who
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Video of the news conference at knows the man to speak up.
The robberies began Dec. 19 in Vero Beach. OnMarch 29, the robber passed a note to a teller at the TD Bank branch at 4675 S. KirkmanRoad in Orlando, police said.
OnApril 3, thesamemanpassed a note to a teller at a TD Bank on StateRoad 434 near Longwood.
Investigatorswould not saywhy they are confident the same man robbed all nine banks.
Nor do they knowwhy the man is targeting only TD Bank branches.
Stills captured by surveillance video show the robber variously wearing caps, glasses, a goatee, a bandanna on his head, a hoodie, flip-up sunglasses, a red vest and a sport coat.
He is bald in two photos. FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Robert Geeslin described the man as between 6-feet-2-inches and 6-feet-4-inches tall, weighing between 215 and 220 pounds.
The other robberies happened in Melbourne, Winter Haven, Lakeland. Lighthouse Point, Lauderhill and, most recently, in Port Orange onWednesday.
The man has left the banks on foot, so investigators don’t have a description of a getaway vehicle. They described him as “brazen” and “confident.”
“He’s committed nine bank robberies in Florida,” said police Detective Rene Ingoglia, the lead investigator on the Orlando case. “We don’twant to let him get away with it.”
Tipsters can call Crimeline at 800-423-8477.