North Bay Bank Burglarized and Flooded; Suspects Still at Large

NORTH BAY, CA -- Police in Sonoma County are investigating a case where a burglar or burglars knocked a hole into a wall to gain access to a Bank of America branch.

At around 7:45 am on Saturday, Feb. 25, police deputies were dispatched to the Bank of America in Windsor, located at 9022 Brooks Road, in the Safeway shopping center, for a burglary report.

A construction worker who arrived to work that morning at a neighboring business found that the business under construction had been accessed. The business has an interior wall that separates it from the bank; the dividing wall separating the two had a hole cut into it. When the suspects cut the hole, they severed water lines causing flooding in both the business under construction and the bank.

Police say a preliminary investigation indicates a suspect or suspects entered the business under construction and cut a hole into an interior wall and gained access into the bank. The suspect(s) then attempted to breach the bank’s vault, but were unsuccessful.

The burglary, which occurred sometime between Friday evening, Feb. 25 and Saturday morning, Feb. 26, is still under investigation. Anyone who may have information regarding the burglary can call the Windsor Police Department or the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office Property Crimes Investigations unit at (707) 565-2185.

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