CCSO: BANK ROBBERY AT CHASE BANK IN CLACKAMAS; SUSPECT AT LARGE; NO ONE INJURED
Posted: January 26th, 2012 12:39 PM
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Please reference Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Case #12-2802
On Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 10:36 a.m. a bank robbery occurred at Chase Bank located at 12400 SE Sunnyside Road, Clackamas Oregon.
No one was injured.
The white male adult suspect has not yet been apprehended.
At 10:36 a.m. this morning witnesses called 911 to report seeing employees inside the Chase Bank holding their hands up. Simultaneously 911 received a hold-up-alarm at the same bank.
Clackamas County Sheriff's deputies responded immediately.
The suspect is described as a white male adult less than six feet tall with a thin to medium build. He wore a black mask, black gloves and black boots. He also wore a gray thin jacket with the hood up, over blue coveralls. He wore a dark green backpack.
Witnesses reported the suspect was armed with two handguns, a silver revolver and a black revolver, which he displayed while robbing the bank.
The suspect had arrived and then left the bank on a purple mountain bike. Deputies found that mountain bike abandoned near 124th Avenue and Mather Road within minutes of the robbery.
A police canine team searched the area but was unable to locate the suspect.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is being assisted by the Portland Police Bureau, The Happy Valley Police Department and the FBI.
TIPS SOUGHT
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is seeking tips and information regarding this crime.
Anyone with information concerning this crime is encouraged to contact the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office's confidential Tip Line -- by telephone at 503-723-4949, or by using the online e-mail form at http://www.co.clackamas.or.us/sheriff/tip.htm.
Please reference Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Case #12-2802.
The public can also submit crime-tip text messages to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office from a cell phone. All users have to do is send a text message to CRIMES (274637 on your phone keypad) -- with the keyword CCSO as the first word in the message body.
Important reminder: Please do not send emergency messages using the text-messaging system -- in case of an emergency, call 911.
Please reference Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Case #12-2802.
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