Wachovia Bank Back Open For Business One Day After Robbery

One day after an , the in the Marketplace at Huntingdon Valley is back open for business.

A person walked into the Wachovia Bank, 2090 County Line Road, and Tuesday and presented a teller with a note demanding cash out of the register. After leaving the bank, police pursued suspect in a car heading towards Philadelphia.

Nobody was hurt or injured during the ordeal as the bank closed down shortly after the incident.

“There was a robbery yesterday,” said Barbara Nate, communications spokeswoman for Wachovia Bank. “It was a note-passer, probably around 2 or 3 in the afternoon. There was no weapon; our staff and customers were fine.”

As police pursued the suspect, they found his car off Bustleton Ave., but the perp fled on foot. This investigation is still ongoing and the robber has not been caught.

“Typically we close to allow the police, in this case the police and the FBI, to do a thorough investigation and talk with our staff so it was closed,” Nate said. “And then it was opened normally for business this morning.”

 As far as “note-passing” is concerned, Nate said the bank’s primary concern is safety, and not the amount of money the suspect walked out of the branch with.

“Safety is our first concern, so yes,” Nate said. “We typically don’t talk about our security precautions, because they aren’t too secure if they appear in the newspaper, but that is something that is of the highest priority in the business we are in.”