The man who walked into a Langhorne Borough bank Friday afternoon and made off with cash may have some experience robbing banks, according to federal law enforcement.
FBI agents and Langhorne police said Saturday that they think the man who walked into the First National Bank of Newtown branch at the of South Bellevue and Richardson avenues in Langhorne at 1:41 p.m. Friday and robbed the bank has experience pulling off similar robberies. FBI agents said they believe the suspect from the Langhorne robbery is also responsible for a robbery last Wednesday at the TD Bank in Rockway, New Jersey, and the Tuesday robbery of the TD Bank in Gloucester, New Jersey. In surveillance images from all three robberies that were reviewed by LevittownNow.com, the suspect carried a backpack. (Due to this fact, we will be calling the suspect the “backpack bank robber.”)
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On Friday afternoon, the backpack bank robber walked up to the teller with a handgun and demanded money. He received an unreleased amount of cash and fled the area on foot.
Despite a large police search from the air and ground, the suspect was not captured and escaped law enforcement.
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According to police, the suspect is described as a white male, approximately 5’3” tall, stocky build, with sores on his face and arms. On Friday, he was wearing a black short-sleeve t-shirt, shorts, sunglasses, and a baseball cap – white in the front, dark-colored in the back. He also had on a black backpack and wore a black glove on his left hand.
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The FBI said in a statement that they consider the backpack bank robber “armed and dangerous.”
Anyone with information on the robberies or the backpack bank robber is asked to call the FBI at 215-418-4000. A reward may be offered for information that can lead to the arrest of the backpack bank robber. In addition, tipsters can remain anonymous.
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