(To me, he kinda looks like that actor from the Dave Chappelle Show, lol)(CNN) -- He has been captured by bank surveillance cameras in four states, sneering and holding a pistol sideways during heists.
Now authorities hope to catch the serial bank robber by plastering his image on electronic billboards throughout the South.
The FBI is searching for the suspect, who they say has robbed at least 10 banks in Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
"This is a unique instance in which the subject in these bank robberies has not used a mask ... or any type of a gimmick," FBI agent Kevin Keithley said Tuesday in Johnson City, Tennessee. "It is really uncommon just to come into a bank and show his face like he has."
The brazen bandit has been captured in surveillance footage sporting the same close-cropped hairstyle and goatee in many of the holdups. He does not seem to make any effort to cover his face and sometimes is seen aiming a handgun sideways, showing his tattoos on both forearms as he gestures at bank employees.
The FBI has mapped the bank robber's path on a map that crisscrosses the southern United States.
The billboard that went up Monday roughly follows the path that bank robber took, the FBI said.
His odyssey has spanned more than 600 miles north, from Charleston, South Carolina, to Louisville, Kentucky, and about 500 miles east, from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Edenton, North Carolina.
The robberies started in May and the most recent one was last week in Tennessee, Keithley said.
The suspect has not yet harmed anybody in the robberies, but the FBI considers him extremely dangerous.
"This guy has made no effort to hide the gun," Keithley said . "He has threatened the use of it in every bank robbery that he has committed. He has put the gun in the faces of tellers, threatened to use the gun against them.... So certainly we need to get this guy in custody before he does harm someone."
The suspect is described as white, about 25 years old, 5 feet 9 to 5 feet 11, 170 to 175 pounds. He has short, reddish-brown hair and an unshaven goatee, the FBI said.
The bureau asks anybody who knows the bank robber to call 423-282-8090.
4 comments:
God, not another bearded tough guy - no doubt has a pickup he can't afford, and a family and a dog that fear for their lives. Seems as if every other guy I see has the beard/camo/sneer mentality, and I have to say that for me, this is really getting old. Fat guys with beards in pickup trucks - you know, I have yet to see one of our finest - the really tought guys - that look or act anything like these guys. I think that rather than beards, guts, pickups and guns, these guys would be better off with a counselor that can ease them into the 21st Century.
No beard, no gut, no camo, no pickup, no tattoos, and no fear whatever of guys like these.
First, any beard, by definition, is "unshaven." Trimmed, maybe, but not shaved. Second, that guy's wearing a Van Dyke, which includes a moustache, not a goatee, which does not.
he looks gay
I think what he is doing is pretty cool, banks suck, and they're insured anyway.
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