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Cops: Wig-wearing robber hits another bank
Photo credit: SCPD | Police are seeking information about a suspect in a robbery of the Bank of America at 345 E. Main St. in East Islip at 10 a.m. Oct. 19. Police said the suspect threatened that he had a bomb and demanded cash. (October 2009)
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A wig-wearing man hit his third bank this month, robbing an East Islip branch Monday morning, police said.
Sporting a dreadlock-style wig under a Yankee cap, the man entered Bank of America at 345 E. Main St., at 10 a.m. and approached a teller "with a note demanding cash and threatening that he had a bomb," Suffolk police said in a news release.
"The teller complied with the robber's...
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