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Masked man robs Colerain Twp. bank
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A masked man dressed in all white robbed a Colerain Township bank Wednesday afternoon, according to police.
The man took $ 2,105 from the Fifth Third Bank inside of Kroger at 6401 Colerain Ave., a bank teller told a Hamilton County dispatcher. The man handed the teller a black bag and told her to fill it up with cash, she said.
“He said, ‘If you want to live, put all of the money in there,” the teller told the dispatcher.
Dispatchers received two emergency calls about the incident: One was from the bank employee, and the other was a hold-up alarm from a security company. Both calls were received at about 2:10 p.m.
The man spoke as though he had a weapon, but he never brandished one, Colerain Township Police Department spokesman Jim Love said.
The suspect left on foot and walked into a wooded area adjacent to the Kroger parking lot. Colerain Township police have not arrested a suspect, Love said.
Love said the Cheviot Police Department loaned a K-9 unit to track the suspect, but the dog lost the suspect’s scent at the end of a nearby cul-de-sac.
The suspect wore a white mask with green and black patterns around the mask’s eye holes, a white, long-sleeved shirt and white sweatpants, the teller told the dispatcher. Witnesses were unsure of the suspect’s race, but one said the man had reddish-brown dreadlocks knotted in a bun sticking out from underneath the back of the mask.
Investigators determined the man was also wearing a white hat with an American flag patch on the front, Love said.
Love said CTPD is searching for a 5-foot-8 suspect, but the teller told the dispatcher she believed him to be closer to 5-foot-5 and 140 pounds.
A Fifth Third Bank spokesman said the bank is cooperating with Colerain Township police but had no further comment.
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