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Seattle police are searching for a bank robbery suspect in the Magnolia area. (Image courtesy SPD)

Seattle police searching for Magnolia bank robbery suspect

BY KIRO Radio Staff  on January 16, 2013 @ 11:49 am (Updated: 1:45 pm - 1/16/13 )

Seattle police are searching for the suspect in an armed robbery at a Magnolia area bank on Wednesday.

Police say the suspect, dressed in a yellow jacket, a mask, and sunglasses entered the US Bank location at 31st Ave W. and W. McGraw St. and ordered customers and staff to the ground at gunpoint.

"The suspect then demanded money." says Seattle Police spokesperson Renee Witt. "Upon receiving the money he fled the bank with the cash."

Responding officers took a white male into custody, but the man turned out not to be the person police were looking for.

"This gentleman in that vehicle was also wearing a yellow jacket. So of course officers thought this was the suspect they were looking for. They contacted him and ultimately he was cleared and was not the suspect we were looking for," says Witt.

Police continue to search for the suspect. Anyone with information is asked to call the SPD Robbery Unit at (206) 684-5535.

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  • NoiseMan wrote...
    Seems Like More Bad Guys...
    January 16, 2013 1:34 pm
    ...are getting away rather than being caught.
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Maybe
    January 16, 2013 4:23 pm
    They need to check the department ranks, I am sure that is why they can't catch the robber. Hard to put yourself in jail.
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  • Cash wrote...
    Right
    January 16, 2013 6:02 pm
    Now SPD is robbing banks? I bet SPD could save your life and the lives of your family and you would still yell, scream, complain, and jump up and down about them being jackbooted thugs...
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Not
    January 16, 2013 6:10 pm
    I will save my own life before I depend on union thugs sucking at the government tit to save me, ha,ha,ha,ha,. They are good at saving horses though, maybe the horses can pay the union wages in horse sh!!!!!t.
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