ATLANTA—Special Agent in Charge (SAC)
Brian D. Lamkin, along with Dekalb County Police Chief W. O’Brien, announces
the following arrest at Dekalb County, Georgia:
Benjamin Rivers, age 33 of Stone
Mountain, was arrested without incident by officers of the Dekalb County Police
Department on state charges related to a series of bank robberies in Dekalb
County. Rivers was taken into custody over the weekend after numerous tips from
the public poured in through Crime Stoppers.
Beginning on July 11, 2011, at the Wells
Fargo Bank, located at 1815 Rockbridge Road in Stone Mountain, Georgia, a
serial bank robber began targeting banks in Dekalb County. To date, this
individual is believed by law enforcement authorities to be responsible for
seven bank robberies within a very defined area of the county.
Each of these robberies occurred in a
similar fashion. Witnesses described a black male suspect wearing a baseball
cap entering these banks, waiting in the customer line, and then approaching an
open teller window, usually while talking on a cell phone. The robber then
presents the teller with a demand note, which threatens a gun. No weapon has
been displayed to date, however, in any of these robberies. After receiving
money from the teller, the robber flees the bank.
The most recent robbery occurred on
Monday May 7, 2012 at approximately 4:07 p.m. A black male suspect wearing a
black ball cap approached the teller at the SunTrust Bank located inside the
Publix grocery store located at 3870 North Druid Hills Road in Decatur,
Georgia. The robber presented a demand note to the teller threatening to shoot
the teller.
The seven robberies attributed to this
same suspect are as follows:
July 11, 2011: Wells Fargo Bank located
at 1815 Rockbridge Rd. in Stone Mountain, Georgia
August 12, 2011: Wells Fargo Bank at
4798 Redan Rd. in Stone Mountain, Georgia
September 3, 2011: Wells Fargo Bank at
6063 Memorial Dr. in Stone Mountain, Georgia
September 16, 2011: SunTrust Bank at
3870 N. Druid Hills Rd. in Decatur, Georgia
October 13, 2011: Wells Fargo Bank at
4798 Redan Rd. in Stone Mountain, Georgia
November 26, 2012: SunTrust Bank at 2075
South Hairston Rd. in Decatur, Georgia
May 7, 2012: SunTrust Bank at 3870 N.
Druid Hills Rd. in Decatur, Georgia
The public is reminded that the above
are merely allegations and that all persons are to be presumed innocent until
proven guilty in a court of law.
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