North Fla. Banks Warned Of Serial Robber

Sheriff's deputies in Alachua and Bradford counties are warning banks and other law enforcement agencies in the area to be on the lookout for a man they believe has held up three banks in small towns in north-central Florida over the past two weeks, and was spotted in a fourth bank.

In robberies in Starke on Dec. 22, Hawthorne on Dec. 28 and Bunnell on Dec. 29, the male robber carried a brown bag and left a possible explosive device on a counter.

The robber is a black man between 20 and 30 years old, 5 feet 7 to 5 feet 10 inches tall with what was described as prominent eyes. In each case, including a sighting of the man in a Crescent City bank hours before the Hawthorne robbery, the robber was wearing a hat.

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Anyone with any information about the robber or the holdups is asked to call their local law enforcement agency or Detective Sheryl Strickland of the Alachua County Sheriff's Office at 352-367-4177.