SEQUIM — An unarmed bank robber wearing a hood and a scary mask was still at large late Tuesday.
Sequim Police Lt. Sheri Crain said the department’s investigators in the robbery of the KeyBank branch on Dunlap Avenue were meeting with FBI agents Tuesday afternoon.
“I know the guys are working hard on this one,” Crain said, adding that a great deal of police resources were put into the case.
Police described the robber as a white male with long blond hair based on what witnesses saw at a distance before he entered the bank.
He fled the bank on a mountain bike with an undisclosed amount of cash in a white bag he held out for the teller to fill.
A photo of the robber was captured clearly on the bank’s surveillance camera, but the mask fully disguised his face, and he wore white gloves on his hands.
He was further described as between ages 30 and 50, about 6 feet tall, 180 pounds with an athletic build and shoulder-length blond hair. He wore a dark navy-blue zip-up hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.
The mountain bike on which the robber fled was blue with a white stripe, according to Crain.
Officers were back to normal patrols Tuesday, Crain said.
Both Sequim police and Clallam County sheriff’s deputies had been staked out in their patrol cars around the neighborhood north of the bank — from East Cedar Street to the city limit and from North Sequim Avenue eastward.
The Sequim department’s tracking dog, a German shepherd named Chase, was used but couldn’t catch the bandit’s scent, possibly because of gusting winds shortly after the robbery was called in at about 10:25 a.m. Monday.
The heist was the first robbery in Sequim since Kitsap Bank on East Washington Street was hit in May 2006.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to phone Sgt. Sean Madison at 360-683-7227.
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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Jeff Chew can be reached at 360-681-2391 or at jeff.chew@peninsuladailynews.com.
