Crime & Safety
Men Who Robbed Richmond Beach Wells Fargo Arrested
Suspects are a 58-year-old Seattle man and 56-year-old homeless man
The King County Sheriffβs Office arrested two men last week for robbing the Wells Fargo Bank in Richmond Beach on Nov. 8.
The man who robbed the banks was described as a βscruffy-lookingβ, white male, in his 50s who approached a bank teller with a silver short-barreled pistol and demanded money.
Sheriffβs deputies arrested a 58-year-old man from Seattle and a 56-year-old homeless man in the incident.
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Detective Cynthia Sampson of the King County Sheriffβs Office Major Crimes division served as the lead detective on the case and followed leads that identified two potential suspects in the case.
Detectives conducted surveillance on one of the subjects and were able to exclude him as a suspect.
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Ultimately, Detective Sampson working with assisting detectives from her unit, in addition to Shoreline detectives/patrol officers, arrested two suspects and booked them into the King County Jail for Investigation of Robbery, according to the King County Sheriffβs Facebook Page.
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