Update: LR Police Still Searching for Bank Robbers After Teller Pepper-Sprayed
By: KARK 4 News
Updated: December 13, 2012
Update (December 13):
The Little Rock Police Department has released new information about a Wednesday afternoon bank robbery on the city's west side.
It happened just before 3:00 at the Metropolitan National Bank, 7401 Cantrell Road, in the Tanglewood Shopping Center.
Police say a woman, followed by a man, walked into the bank after which she used pepper spray on a 28-year-old man who worked as a teller. The man then pulled out a handgun and told everyone to get on the floor.
The incident report noted that one teller told police the suspects looked like customers who have been in the bank before.
A review of the surveillance video showed the suspects' vehicle headed east down Cantrell Road.
Original story (December 12, 4:00 p.m.):
Little Rock Police are searching for a man and a woman suspected of robbing a bank Wednesday afternoon.
The robbery occurred just before 3:00 p.m. at the Metropolitan National Bank in the 7400 block of Cantrell.
According to early reports, one suspect is a black man about 6 feet 4 inches tall, about 280 pounds with a full beard and dressed in all black, including a zip-up hooded sweatshirt.
The other suspect is a black woman about 5 feet 4 inches tall, about 140 pounds, with long black hair, also wearing all black, including a hat.
The man reportedly had a small handgun, and the woman pepper-sprayed a 28-year-old man who worked as a teller in the bank before they took off fled in a white four-door Chevrolet Malibu.
There were no customers in the bank at the time of the robbery, and the teller was treated at the scene.
The Little Rock Police Department has released new information about a Wednesday afternoon bank robbery on the city's west side.
It happened just before 3:00 at the Metropolitan National Bank, 7401 Cantrell Road, in the Tanglewood Shopping Center.
Police say a woman, followed by a man, walked into the bank after which she used pepper spray on a 28-year-old man who worked as a teller. The man then pulled out a handgun and told everyone to get on the floor.
The incident report noted that one teller told police the suspects looked like customers who have been in the bank before.
A review of the surveillance video showed the suspects' vehicle headed east down Cantrell Road.
Original story (December 12, 4:00 p.m.):
Little Rock Police are searching for a man and a woman suspected of robbing a bank Wednesday afternoon.
The robbery occurred just before 3:00 p.m. at the Metropolitan National Bank in the 7400 block of Cantrell.
According to early reports, one suspect is a black man about 6 feet 4 inches tall, about 280 pounds with a full beard and dressed in all black, including a zip-up hooded sweatshirt.
The other suspect is a black woman about 5 feet 4 inches tall, about 140 pounds, with long black hair, also wearing all black, including a hat.
The man reportedly had a small handgun, and the woman pepper-sprayed a 28-year-old man who worked as a teller in the bank before they took off fled in a white four-door Chevrolet Malibu.
There were no customers in the bank at the time of the robbery, and the teller was treated at the scene.
