Police seek suspect in bank robbery
DUNBAR TWP. – State police are looking for a man who robbed the National City bank branch in the Laurel Mall on Thursday and fled before other people in the mall knew anything happened. “I had customers,” said Gail Haug, who was working at Annee’s Popcorn when the robbery occurred at 10:50 a.m. “I heard some guy say a guy ran the from the bank.”
“There was a little excitement afterward,” said Sister Margaret Tuley, who was preparing food for the food bank at Rendu Services when the incident took place.
Both said they didn’t realize anything had happened until people began milling around in the mall talking about the incident and the state police showed up.
They said police interviewed several people in the mall.
State police said a 6-foot-tall white man with short dark brown hair, blue eyes, a large nose, stubble facial hair and a dark complexion or dark tan entered the branch office and waited in line at a teller’s window.
When it was his turn, he handed the teller a note then left with an unknown amount of money.
He went outside and entered a red Chevrolet Cavalier being driven by another white man and fled the scene, police said.
The robber was in his 20s or early 30s, had a medium build and weighed an estimated 190 to 200 pounds. He was wearing a dark baseball-type hat, a black short-sleeved shirt with a West Coast Choppers or Orange County Choppers design on it and blue jeans.
“No customers or employees were hurt, and we hope to reopen tomorrow (Friday),” National City spokesman Bill Eiler said.
He said the robber did not display a weapon, but implied that he had one.
The bank’s policy is not to disclose the amount of money taken in robberies, Eiler said.
State police trooper John F. Marshall asks anybody with information about the robbery to call him at 724-414-1201 or the Uniontown station at 724-439-7111. He said all calls will remain confidential.