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Help police in Orange County get their man
NEWS12 WESTCHESTER: Police say a bank robber fled The Berkshire Bank with an unknown amount of cash. (Aug. 30, 2012) (August 30, 2012 1:06 PM)
Do you recognize this bank robber?
Cops say he walked into the Berkshire Bank in Harriman Wednesday afternoon, waved a handgun at the teller and demanded cash.
After the clerk handed over the cash -- police didn't say how much -- the robber bolted from the bank, turned west on foot and disappeared. Harriman police and state troopers combed the area of Route 17 near the bank and even...