Charleston Police are investigating a bank robbery in the South Hills neighborhood of Charleston.
A man robbed the City National Bank on Bridge Road about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, a Metro 911 dispatcher said.
“He entered the bank, he presented a demand note and robbed the bank of an undisclosed amount of cash,” said Lt. Steve Cooper, chief of detectives for the Charleston Police Department.
Cooper said he could not say if a weapon or the threat of an explosive was involved.
The dispatcher described the purported robber as a white man, about 40 years old, about 6 feet tall, who left the scene in a car.
The car was a dark-colored Mazda Miata, Cooper said.
He said a witness got a “very good bead” on the suspect, visually, and that an acquaintance may have recognized him fleeing.
Cooper said investigators would be sharing images related to the robbery and asked anyone who might know anything to call 911 or Charleston Police.
“You can never really predict bank robberies,” Cooper said. The circumstances are always different. But it’s not rare; bank robberies are not rare.”
The call from the bank’s alarm company came in at 3:40 p.m., the dispatcher said.
Lt. Steve Cooper on the bank robbery on Bridge Road in Charleston pic.twitter.com/FJUgn3XyVB
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