By Tyler Marshall
Charleston –So far this month the Post and Courier has reported 10 bank robberies across the greater Charleston area.
At 5p.m. on June 14 a man walked in to a Wachovia at Gaslight Square shopping center in North Charleston. The man handed the teller a note demanding money. The teller handed the man an undisclosed amount of money and the man ran away down Rivers Avenue.
On June 17 a masked gunman robbed the First Federal bank on Coleman Boulevard in Mount Pleasant. That same day in Summerville the Wachovia on Bacons Bridge Road was robbed. Summerville police are looking for Tyrel Rashone, 20, in connection with that robbery.
The next day at 10 a.m. in Mount Pleasant a man carrying a handgun robbed a First Federal Bank. The man got away with an undisclosed amount of money. By that afternoon Mount Pleasant police had arrested Jeffery Paul Nance for the robbery.
The very next day, June 19, a man robbed a First National Bank on Johnnie Dodds Boulevard in Mount Pleasant at gunpoint.
At 2:30 p.m. on June 21 a man walked entered the First Citizens Bank on Rivers Avenue and presented the teller a note demanding money. North Charleston police arrested Kevin Smith for the crime that same day. Smith is also a suspect in the robbery of the Wachovia in Gaslight Square. Later that same day a bank in Mount Pleasant was robbed.
On June 25 a Bank of America on Folly road was robbed. The man in question jumped over the counter and grabbed money from the cash drawers.
The next day at noon a Wachovia on Sam Rittenberg Boulevard was robbed by a man who handed the teller a demanding note. 30 minutes later a Bank of America was hit on the same street, but the man did not get any money.
The month of June is not over yet.
For more information on the robberies go to www.postandcourier.com.
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