Friday, April 24, 2009

Black Hat Bandits Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix FBI Special Agent in Charge Nathan Thomas Gray announced today the FBI’s Bank Robbery Task Force, Phoenix Division is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a possible crew of serial bank robbers.

The alleged serial bank robbers have robbed eleven US Bank branches, One Wells Fargo bank branch and one Chase bank branch.

Eleven of the thirteen bank robberies have occurred inside Safeway grocery stores. During the first five bank robberies the robber handed the victim teller a white envelope demanding the teller’s money. A note was used exclusively during the last eight robberies.

The subjects are described as follows: Hispanic males or light skinned Hispanic males, early 20’s to mid 30’s, 5’8” to 5’10”, 160 lbs., skinny to medium build. In some of the robberies the robbers wore black hats. At other times they have worn a bandanna, a striped hat, a gray beanie cap and a beanie cap with a Cardinal’s logo.


The US Bank has announced a reward of up to $10,000.00 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of anyone robbing a US Bank. Amount of the reward is determined by the management of Corporate Security and recommendation from law enforcement as the validity of information provided.

The location and dates of the robberies are as follows:

12/05/2008, US Bank, 3450 W. Bell Road, Phoenix
02/20/2009, US Bank, 520 W. Osborn Road, Phoenix
03/04/2009, US Bank, 3450 W. Bell Road, Phoenix
03/06/2009, US Bank, 630 E. Bell Road, Phoenix
03/30/2009, US Bank, 12320 N. 83rd Avenue, Peoria
04/04/2009, US Bank, 15415 N. 65th Place, Phoenix
04/04/2009, Wells Fargo, Bank, 4857 E. Greenway Road, Phoenix
04/07/2009, Chase Bank, 12320 N. 83rd Avenue, Peoria
04/11/2009, US Bank, 3450 W. Bell Road, Phoenix
04/14/2009, US Bank, 630 E. Bell Road, Phoenix
04/15/2009, US Bank, 520 W. Osborn Road, Phoenix
04/16/2009, US Bank, 5100 W. Baseline Road, Phoenix
04/22/2009, US Bank, 4811 N. 83rd Avenue, Phoenix

Please, contact the FBI Phoenix Office at (602) 279-5511 with any information about these bank robberies.

Source: FBI Phoenix, Arizona office