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Police searching for Factoria bank robbery suspect

Published 1:54 pm Tuesday, April 28, 2015

By Brandon Macz

A Bellevue Police officer follows a K-9 unit up Southeast 40th Place as it attempts to locate a robbery suspect who struck the nearby U.S. Bank in Factoria.
A Bellevue Police officer follows a K-9 unit up Southeast 40th Place as it attempts to locate a robbery suspect who struck the nearby U.S. Bank in Factoria.

Police are actively searching for a robbery suspect, who made off with an undisclosed amount of cash from the U.S. Bank in Factoria around 12:20 p.m. today (Tuesday, April 28).

Bellevue Police Ofc. Seth Tyler said a white man with a muscular build, wearing a ski mask and hoodie, entered the bank around noon and gave a teller a note that implied he had a gun, but did not display a firearm during the robbery. After receiving the undisclosed amount of cash, the robbery suspect fled the scene, Tyler said.

A Seattle Police K-9 unit was used by officers in an attempt to locate the suspect, the dog at one point leading its handler past the strip mall behind the bank and east up Southeast 40th Lane. Tyler said King County’s Guardian One helicopter was also called in to assist in searching the wooded area east of the bank. Police interviewed employees at the bank this afternoon and are providing a still from bank security footage to assist the public. The FBI will take over the case sometime due to the case falling under federal jurisdiction.

 

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