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Fort Smith Bank Robbery Suspect Arrested In Greenwood

FORT SMITH (KFSM) — A suspect was arrested in Greenwood Tuesday evening (Jan. 17) in connection with a bank robbery in Fort Smith, Greenwood police said. Police...
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FORT SMITH (KFSM) — A suspect was arrested in Greenwood Tuesday evening (Jan. 17) in connection with a bank robbery in Fort Smith, Greenwood police said.

Police arrested Alexander Cole, 26, of Huntington on suspicion of robbery.

Shortly before 4:50 p.m., police were dispatched to First National Bank on U.S. 71 regarding a robbery.

Witnesses told police a Caucasian man wearing sunglasses, a shirt, blue jeans, a Carhartt jacket and gloves, as well as a hat, robbed the bank.

No weapons were involved. According to police, the suspect passed a note to a bank teller and fled with $3,000 cash. The clerk complied and the suspect left the bank.

After the accused suspect fled, a manager at the bank told police he witnessed the suspect get into the driver’s seat of a black Chevrolet van. He wrote the license plate number and police traced it to a rental company in Greenwood.

Cole was detained at the business when he returned the van, and was subsequently arrested following an interview with detectives.

The money allegedly stolen during the robbery was found hidden on Cole, according to police.

He remained Wednesday in the Sebastian County Detention Center without bond.

 

Fort Smith Bank Robbery Suspect Arrested In Greenwood

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