NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
June 2, 2008
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
OCSO INVESTIGATES BANK ROBBERY
The Okaloosa
County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the armed robbery of the First National
Bank and Trust at 448 N. Eglin Parkway around 11:30 a.m. Monday. A teller says a
man walked in with a small black revolver and demanded money before leaving out
the bank’s back door and heading south/southwest on foot.
The
suspect is described as a tall, thinly built black male, approximately 18 to 30
years of age, wearing a blue short-sleeved T-shirt, brown jogging pants with a
white stripe, and a black ski mask with one facial hole.
He was
last seen running across Eglin Street and jumping a fence.
Anyone
with information on the bank robbery is asked to call the Okaloosa County
Sheriff’s Office at 850-651-7400 or Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers at
850-863-TIPS.
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