Original Blog Entry: Bank robber tries to escape on bicycle

truesee — Sat, 29 May 2010 00:51:37 GMT

Man on bike arrested after downtown bank robbery

JAMES HALPIN

Anchorage Daily News

May 27th, 2010 09:39 PM

A man suspected of robbing a downtown bank Thursday afternoon and who fled the scene on a bike crashed into a police car and hit the ground, with cash spilling out of his backpack, according to Anchorage police. The suspect, Christopher Todd Mayer, 45, was arrested and was taken in for questioning, police said.

A robber walked into the Wells Fargo at 630 E. Fifth Ave. about 1:15 p.m. wearing a camouflage bandanna over his face and demanded cash but didn't show a weapon, police said. The teller stuffed money into the robber's backpack and the man left the bank heading west.

While responding to the scene, officer Aaron Roberts saw a bicyclist with a camouflaged bandanna around his neck at Ninth Avenue and Karluk Street, police said. The biker refused to stop, prompting Roberts to block the bike with his cruiser, police said.

Mayer didn't stop but instead hit the cruiser with the bike and slid over the hood, then fell to the ground, police said. In the process, he dropped his backpack. Money spilled out onto the ground, according to police. Mayer ran but was arrested a half-block away, police said.

The FBI said this was the third bank robbery in Alaska this year.

Read more: http://www.adn.com/2010/05/27/1297402/man-on-bike-arrested-after-downtown.html#ixzz0pH6oN2J8

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