PORT ANGELES — The year’s second North Olympic Peninsula bank robbery Tuesday morning bears an uncanny resemblance to the first.
The holdup was at Kitsap Bank, 716 E. Front St., and a February heist was at Sequim’s Kitsap Bank branch at 990 E. Washington St.
Nobody was hurt in either crime, in which the robber apparently fled on foot.
And fuzzy security camera photos from both robberies show apparently the same man in the same white baseball cap and same plaid shirt.
But law enforcement officials aren’t ready to say yet that the two holdups were committed by the same person or that the incidents are related.
Baby boomer bandit?
A man described to be in his late 50s or early 60s entered the Port Angeles Kitsap Bank branch about 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, walked up to one of two tellers, displayed a gun and immediately fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of money, said Special Agent Robbie Burroughs, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Seattle office.
The man was described as being of medium height and build, clean-shaven with bushy sideburns. He was wearing the plaid shirt, dark pants, a baseball-style cap and tennis shoes.
The man reportedly fled south toward East First Street.
“He did display a gun, but I don’t know how — whether he waved it or just showed it in his waistband,” Burroughs said.
“It was not a major takeover. It was a quiet robbery.
“No one was hurt.”.
