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Updated: 7:41 PM May 22, 2010
NEW INFO: Suspect Arrested in Lewis County Lab Coat Bank Robbery
The man who threatened to blow up a bank in Lewis County was arrested Saturday.
Posted: 5:34 PM May 22, 2010Reporter: WSAZ News Staff Email Address: news@wsaz.com |
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UPDATE: Saturday @5:26pm/b>
FIREBRICK, Ky. (WSAZ) -- The man who threatened to blow up a bank in Lewis County was arrested Saturday.
Deputies say the man seen in surveillance video, wearing a white lab coat, is Stanley Purtee.
After Thursday's robbery at the Citizens Deposit Bank in Firebrick, Kentucky, deputies say they found the getaway car in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Early Saturday morning, some Ohio bail bondsmen found and were able to chase Purtee down.
Deputies say Purtee was actually free on bond after being charged with robbing the Federal Atomic Credit Union in Portsmouth back in January.
Purtee is from Portsmouth, and is being held in the Scioto County Jail.
ORIGINAL STORY
FIREBRICK, Ky. (WSAZ) -- Police are looking for man wearing a white lab coat who robbed a Lewis County, Kentucky bank on Thursday.
The robbery happened at the the Citizens Deposit Bank in Firebrick around noon.
A teller at the bank says a man wearing a ball cap, sunglasses and a white lab coat pointed a gun at her and threatened to blow something up. He said he would push a button and blow it up. No word yet on what exactly he was talking about.
The man got the money in the drawers and left in a black Monte Carlo. He is still on the run.
No one was injured and there is no word yet on how much money the man got away with.
We have a crew on the scene and will have surveillance video on First at 5 and the 6 O Clock news.
Keep clicking on WSAZ.com for more information.
Latest Comments
Yes throw away the key and uh, he shouldn't of had to be caught by lewis or greenup because portsmouth has been the one that caught him the first time and then let him out! Now as for picksimer the bank closing guess you don't work so you don't need a bank for your money.
he just robbed a bank in portsmouth a few months ago and they let him go!! When will they keep him in jail? when he kills someone? how dumb can our court system be??
it a shame that bank in the middle of no where it need close down we do not need all thes bank it seems ther not muck money around
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