The man who robbed a Florence bank Friday morning has been identified as a suspect in a series of bank robberies in the Carolinas, according to a Crime Stoppers press release issued Monday.
The man nonchalantly walked into the Wachovia branch office at 104 David H. McLeod Blvd. about 9:45 a.m. and approached a teller as if to conduct business, Florence Police Maj. Carlos Raines said.
The man presented the teller with a bag and a note demanding money. The teller complied with the robber’s demands, and the man walked out the same door from which he’d entered. Nobody was hurt during the robbery, Raines said.
The first robbery occurred Sept. 23rd at a BB&T branch in Wilmington, N.C., according to Crime Stoppers. On Oct. 9, another BB&T office was robbed in Spartanburg. Then Oct. 13, the same suspect apparently struck a Carolina First bank in Greenville followed by another robbery in Spartanburg on Oct. 19 at a Wachovia branch.
The suspect then returned to Wilmington, hitting two Bank of America offices, one Nov. 3 and another Nov. 10, according to Crime Stoppers.
The robber is described as a middle-aged white man, 40 to 45 years old, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and 180 pounds. He had a mustache and goatee and was wearing a dark green or brown sweater, blue jeans and a dark green or brown rimmed hat and glasses at the time of the Florence robbery.
In each instance, the suspect is wearing some sort of hat, ranging from a cap to a broad-brimmed canvas fishing hat. In the Oct. 19 Spartanburg robbery, surveillance video from a nearby convenience store showed the suspect leaving the bank in a white 2007-2008 Ford F-150 fleet type truck. Witnesses at the Oct. 9 robbery in Spartanburg described his getaway vehicle as a burgundy sport-utility vehicle. Police don’t know whether the robber left the Florence bank by foot or by car.
Anyone who was in the parking lot and may have seen him leaving is asked to call the police department at (843) 665-3193, the local FBI office at (843) 662-9363 or the state Crime Stoppers hotline at (888) CRIME SC (274-6372). Callers need not reveal their identities and may be eligible for a reward.
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