A special investigative team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is chasing the whereabouts of a suspect called the “sticky note robbery” in a series of robberies at three banks in Texas.
Within 10 days, a male suspect dressed as a woman entered three separate banks in Texas, handing tellers threatening sticky notes and demanding cash, an FBI press release said. said.
On July 5, the suspect successfully robbed Houston’s Hancock Whitney Bank after handing a post-it note to the teller, disguised as a woman. On July 11, the suspect attempted a robbery by handing a post-it note to a teller at Wells Fargo Bank in Houston. The teller then walked away from the counter instead of handing over the cash and locked himself in a back room, leaving the suspect in the bank lobby. Moments later, the suspect fled the scene without any money, the release said. On July 13, the suspect entered another Wells Fargo bank in Houston and managed to obtain undisclosed cash after handing a sticky note to a teller, the release said. (Related: 78-year-old Missouri woman arrested for bank robbery… third time)
The FBI said no one was physically harmed during the robbery, despite threatening messages.
The FBI said the suspects in two previous robberies wore a black wig, black sunglasses, a blue medical mask, a green sweater, black ballet shoes and had a black purse.
Houston’s CrimeStoppers is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the identification and arrest of suspects.