Mar 27, 2009 8:06 am US/Eastern
Is Serial Bank Robber Leaving Hoax Bombs?
WELLESLEY (WBZ) ―
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The FBI released this surveillance image of a bank robber brandishing a handgun who left a suspicious device after robbing a Bank of America on Washington St.
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The FBI released this surveillance image of a bank robber who left a suspicious device after robbing a Bank of America on Washington St.
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Police have cordoned off this area of Washington Street while a bomb squad investigates a suspicious device.
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Police cordoned off this Star Market on Washington Street as a bomb squad investigates a suspicious device.
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The FBI is trying to determine if two suspicious devices found near each other in Wellesley on Thursday are connected, and if it could all be part of a serial robber's plan to hit local banks.
The incidents on Thursday caused major traffic problems during the evening rush, as a stretch of Washington Street (Route 16) was shut down.
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Wellesley police and the FBI evacuated the area after finding one device at a payphone outside a supermarket and the other inside a bank.
FIRST DEVICE, SECOND DEVICE
The first device was found after somebody dialed 911 and hung up, from the payphone outside the Star Market at 448 Washington Street. Responding police found the device on top of the phone. A special bomb squad robot was used to detonate it.
Minutes later, a masked gunman held up a Bank of America branch about half a mile away at 342 Washington Street. That robber left a device on the bank counter. Investigators are now examining the material from both devices for similarities, and to determine if they were actual explosives or hoax devices.
SIMILAR INCIDENTS IN LAST WEEK
Wellesley Police Sgt. Marie Clearly confirmed authorities are also looking into whether Thursday's robbery and bomb scare are connected to two similar incidents in the last week.
On Monday, a device was found
wired to a payphone in Needham, with a note attached to it. Like in Wellesley, somebody called 911 from that phone, and hung up.
Last week, somebody
called in a bomb scare to an elementary school in Holbrook, minutes before the nearby Randolph Savings Bank was robbed.
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