Suspect in years-old bank robbery is arrested

Columbia police have arrested a man they believe robbed a US Bank branch more than four years ago.

Steven Clark, 43, was charged with first-degree robbery and armed criminal action Tuesday after investigators with the Columbia Police Department obtained a warrant for his arrest. He was being held at Boone County Jail on $100,000 bond.

Police say Clark entered the US Bank, 507 Business Loop 70 W. on Oct. 28, 2002, and handed the teller a note indicating that he had a gun and intended to rob the bank. He escaped with an unknown amount of cash.

Clark was taken into the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections in November 2002 on suspicion of robbing a bank in Alabama. At the time, he was suspected of carrying out several other robberies, said Major Crimes Supervisor Sgt. Ken Hammond of the Columbia Police Department.

Clark was transported to Boone County from Alabama on Tuesday morning after waiving an extradition hearing.

“He was a traveler,” Hammond said. “He was wanted in California as well, but I am uncertain of whatever happened to those charges.”