The FBI is looking for the so-called Portfolio Bandit, a robber who gives tellers notes he takes from a black portfolio folder.
He is suspected in 11 bank robberies in the Denver metro area from December 2008 and Feb. 3, when he is suspected of robbing the US Bank at 1560 South Pierce St. in Denver.
In three of the robberies he indicated he had a weapon, but tellers did not see one, the FBI said in a statement.
Denver police are asking the public’s help in finding a bank robbery suspect.
An arrest warrant had been issued for 38-year-old Darrell Wordworth, Denver police said in a media release.
Wordworth is suspected of robbing five banks since Jan. 1, most recently the Key Bank, 2776 Speer Blvd., last Thursday.
At the Key Bank the robber showed a teller a handgun and threatened her, police said.
CORTEZ, Colo.—Police say an intoxicated man used a backhoe to flip a car over and smash into a motel in southwest Colorado.
Witnesses say bystanders pulled the man from the machine. He complained of sore ribs but no other injuries were reported.
The incident occurred Saturday in Cortez.
Police spokeswoman Angelia Herrmann says the suspect had been doing work for the motel owners in exchange for a room, but the owners had just ended the arrangement. It’s not clear who owned the backhoe.
Herrmann says a room housing the motel laundry and boiler was destroyed.
Forty-four-year-old Freddy Jaramillo of Cortez was being held on suspicion of driving under the influence, criminal mischief and menacing.
It wasn’t clear if he had a lawyer.
An employee of the Limon Correctional Facility was assaulted this morning by an inmate and is being treated for injuries, said Katherine Sanguinetti, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections.
The assault occurred about 10:25 a.m.
Police in Limon said an ambulance was sent to the prison, which is about six miles southwest of downtown Limon.
Sanguinetti said that the male correctional officer is conscious and in stable condition at a local hospital.
Details of the assault are not being released at this time, said Sanguinetti.
“It’s under investigation,” she added.
FORT COLLINS, Colo.—Someone scratched obscenities into the paint on two Fort Collins police patrol cars and smashed windows on one of them.
Police said Saturday the vandal or vandals didn’t get into the cars or take anything.
The first incident occurred Feb. 12 in the vicinity of Timberline and Trilby roads; the second occurred Feb. 18 near Harmony and Ziegler roads. Police say the cars were parked overnight when the attacks happened.
Authorities say repairs will likely cost several thousand dollars.
from the Denver Post.
Yesterday Denver police arrested the $83 bandit, identified as Frank Lewis, shortly after his fourteenth successful bank robbery in the Denver area.
The $83 bandit, the Shaggy Bandit, the Hopping Hooded Bandits, the High Country Bandits: heroes of the social war.
Update: Sadly, the criminal was arrested some 13 hours later.
A search is on for a man who apparently ran over a Denver sheriff’s deputy about 7:30 a.m. today after deputies went to the 1200 block of South Knox Court to arrest him.
Officials say Brendan Cook jumped out a window when deputies arrived. He got in his car and rammed one deputy, Don Travis, a 14-year veteran. His partner, Eric Gibens, a 16-year veteran, fired what is believed to be a single shot at the fleeing car.
The shot hit a driver-side window of the silver BMW, which sped off.
Travis was taken to a hospital. His injuries are not life-threatening.
About 9 a.m. officials found a parked car matching the description of the one that hit the deputy a few blocks away near Garfield Lake Park. They cordoned off the car with crime scene tape.
The FBI is seeking the publics help in capturing a prolific bank robbing duo dubbed the “High Country Bandits.”
The two have committed a dozen armed robberies across Colorado, New Mexico and northern Arizona, the FBI said in a news release.
The robberies took place in rural locations around closing time and the prime suspect brandishes a black semi-automatic handgun while demanding money from tellers.
The suspect orders everyone in the bank to the ground and flees with a second suspect, authorities said, on a green or maroon four-wheel drive ATV.
Police suspect the High Country Bandits in robberies starting on Sept. 8 in Heber, Az.
The following credit union and banks have been robbed:
A man who was allegedly one of a group of bank robbers dubbed the “Hoppin Hooded Bandits” was arrested late Wednesday by the FBI and the Denver Metro SWAT team at a Denver home, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said today.
The man, identified as Timothy McGlothin, 41, is the second member of the gang who authorities say they’ve arrested.
Joshua Licona, described as an accomplice of McGlothin, was arrested earlier.
Both men were indicted by the federal grand jury in Denver on Jan. 6 alleging that the pair used a handgun to rob the Bank of Denver, 800 E. 17th Ave. They are also accused of using a handgun during a crime of violence – specifically the armed robbery of a bank.
If convicted of count one, the pair face a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. If convicted of count 2 – using a firearm during a crime of violence – they face a sentence of between 7 years and life in prison.
A robber known as the “Band-Aid Bandit,” who is suspected of hitting several stores and banks in Aurora since November, has struck again, the FBI said.
At about 4:40 p.m. Friday a TCF Bank, 1699 E. Quincy Ave., was robbed by the so-called Band-Aid Bandit, according to an FBI media release.
The robber wears “a band-aid over the bridge of his nose” and “black framed eye glasses,” the FBI said.
At the TCF robbery the bandit handed a note to a teller, demanding that a plastic grocery bag be filled with cash. The robber fled in a car.
At about 1:30 p.m. on Jan. 12 the bandit robbed the Bank of the West, 700 S. Abilene St., Aurora, the FBI said, and fled in a different vehicle.
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