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PrintA Bank of America branch off Old 63 South was robbed Tuesday afternoon when a man handed a bank teller a note demanding money. Police said that the suspect implied he was carrying a weapon but never showed one and that he fled with an undisclosed amount of money.
Columbia police described the robber as a 30- to 40-year-old, thin, white male, standing between 6 feet 2 and 6 feet 5 inches tall. He was last seen wearing a black windbreaker, an off-white baseball cap with a Nike logo, denim jeans and large-framed sunglasses. Police said he was last seen at a bus stop on Old 63 South.
Surveillance photographs show a man holding a large note up to a bank teller and walking out of the bank less than 30 seconds later.
Tuesday’s bank robbery comes days after Cole County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man implicated in two Columbia bank robberies last month.
Jonathan Jarden, 36, was charged with first-degree robbery and possession of OxyContin after he tried to rob a bank in Jefferson City. Jarden has been tied to two robberies of different Columbia branches of the Boone County National Bank, Columbia police Capt. Zim Schwartze said.
A branch of the bank on St. Charles Road in Lake of the Woods was robbed May 7, and another branch inside Columbia Mall on Bernadette Drive was robbed May 14.
Schwartze said the rash of bank robberies in recent weeks is unusual but not unprecedented.
“Bank robberies tend to spike at various times during the year,” Schwartze said. “Our detectives are excellent about talking with other agencies, and they usually make an arrest within the first month.”
Anyone with information regarding the robbery is asked to contact CrimeStoppers at 875-8477.
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