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Monday, July 16, 2012

Reading Stop & Shop Robber Suspected in Other Area Robberies

Police may be dealing with a serial bank robber.

The man police say robbed the Stop & Shop in Reading in June may have had some practice over the past few weeks.  Police believe the same man may have robbed banks in North Andover, Chelmsford and Salem, N.H., recently. The suspect walked into the Citizens Bank at Stop & Shop in North Andover Saturday at about 4:30 p.m. and demanded the tellers give him money, saying he had explosives in the bank. One teller told him to take off his sunglasses and the man fled without getting any cash. Police and fire crews did a sweep of the store and made sure there were no explosives, and the building was reopened for business within an hour. On July 2, there was a similar incident in Salem, N.H., when a man walked into the Citizens Bank at Shaw's on …

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3:22 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012

In the article it say one teller asked that does not mean it was the teller he was at. It happens all the time in the bank a customer comes in and goes to one teller and another will ask to remove. So the other one might not have seen the note.   more ›

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Daily PatchCast

PatchCast: Salem Fire Cause Found, Identity of Alleged Bank Robber Known

Your daily roundup of the day's news for Wednesday, March 23.

Welcome to PatchCast. Every weekday at 6 p.m. we'll fill you in on the top stories from across the region. Today is Wednesday, March 23. Follow these links for more on the featured stories:

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