LORAIN — A robbery of the First Federal Savings Bank of Lorain at East 42nd Street and state Route 57 is under investigation.
If you know this man, please contact Lorain police at 204-2105.
No one was injured in the robbery, which occurred at 3:35 p.m. Thursday.
Police Detective Steyven Curry said the robber was a white man who didn’t display a weapon.
Curry provided bank surveillance photos of the suspect, a white man in his 20s with a chin-length brown wig and a beard wearing a black shirt. Curry declined to give additional details on the heist.
“We don’t want to put too much out until we get leads,” he said.
This is not the first time the bank has been robbed.
On June 2, Lorain resident Robert Cruz was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for robbing the bank on Nov. 2 and for the Nov. 10 robbery of the First Place Bank near the Midway Mall in Elyria.
While detectives interviewed tellers inside the building, frustrated customer Betty Coleman of Lorain, who arrived after the robbery, said she was unable to cash a money order.
She said she usually banks at the Oberlin Avenue branch, and the last time she visited the East 42nd Street branch was just hours before it was robbed that day, too.
“I don’t know what made me come here today,” she said. “I was just in a hurry.”
Anyone with info on the robbery can contact Lorain police at 204-2105.
Contact Evan Goodenow at 329-7129 or egoodenow@chroniclet.com.
