| $400,000 stolen in Tempe bank robbery
The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of three bank robbers who stole $400,000 from the Wells Fargo bank near McClintock Drive and Warner Road in Tempe Friday morning.
FBI's John Lewis said the three men are smarter than the average bank robber and appear to have been planning the robbery for some time. Lewis said the robbery was committed after two armed suspects held the manager of the bank and his wife hostage at their Chandler home overnight. They then made the manager take them to the bank Friday morning where the robbery was carried out.
The FBI said that the bank robbers also held the manager of a Desert Schools Federal Credit Union in Chandler and his family hostage Wednesday night. They released them a short time later after realizing they wouldn't be able to carry out the robbery.
FBI: Bank robbers might have police experience
It might not be luck that three robbers possessed the skills to recently pull off what might be the largest bank heist in Arizona history, an FBI official said Monday. Bank robbers kidnap employee, make huge haul Because surveillance and surprise were essential to the bandits� strategy, FBI Special Agent in Charge John E. Lewis speculated the men may have backgrounds in law enforcement or the military. �(It�s) my assessment of how they conducted themselves in the homes and in the bank, as well,� Lewis said. The suspects in Friday morning�s robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank in Tempe had kidnapped an employee from their Chandler home the night before. The robbers used that person to gain access to the building at 8670 S. McClintock Drive before making off with more than $400,000. They first had tried that plan on Wednesday night, entering the Chandler residence of an employee of the Desert Schools Federal Credit Union.
Three men sought in $400,000 bank heist
Three men escaped with $400,000 after holding two families hostage and robbing a Tempe, Ariz., bank, The Arizona Republic reported Monday.
The incident appeared patterned after "Bandits," a 2001 movie in which two men kidnap bank managers, spend the night with their families and then go to the bank the next day to collect the money, police told the Republic.
The robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank in Tempe occurred after the suspects held the bank manager hostage at home overnight Thursday before they all went to the bank before it opened Friday to take $400,000, police said.
In a separate incident Wednesday, the same thieves held the manager of the Desert Schools Federal Credit Union and the manager's family hostage in their home before deciding to scrub a robbery at the credit union, the Republic reported.
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