Picayune police looking for bank robber who may be headed here

By Erik Sanzenbach
St. Tammany News
Published on Friday, April 25, 2008 8:56 AM CDT

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The Picayune, Miss., Police Department is asking residents in east St. Tammany Parish for help locating a suspect wanted for an April 19 bank robbery in Picayune.

Capt. Theresa Milar, spokesperson for the Picayune Police Department, said the suspect entered the First National Bank on Memorial Boulevard in Picayune around 10 a.m. last Saturday. He waited in line, and when he got to the teller, handed her a note demanding money. Milar said there was no weapon involved in the robbery.

After the suspect got the unknown amount of money, he fled the bank and ran across the street to the Pine Tree Plaza, where he got into an older model Ford pickup truck, that was grey with red trim and had a camper on the back.

Video surveillance of bank robber.

Milar is asking for help in St. Tammany Parish because Harrison County investigators believe the suspect is heading west. He is suspected of robbing the Regions Bank on April 17 in D’Iberville, Miss., east of Picayune.

The suspect is described as a white male, 6 feet, 1 inch tall and weighing between 180 and 200 pounds with short dirty blond hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt and light-colored blue jeans. Witnesses said the suspect took off the black T-shirt and was last seen wearing a white T-shirt.

Anyone with any information on the suspect is asked to call the Picayune Police Department at (601) 798-0374, or the Mississippi CrimeStoppers at (601) 799-2583. Milar said St. Tammany residents can call the Louisiana CrimeStoppers phone line, and the Picayune police will arrange for payment of reward if the suspect is captured.

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