NotDeadYet
Beach Fanatic
Cops everywhere when I went to Publix - WJHG is reporting the SunTrust was robbed, and the armed suspect fled into the woods. 
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Seagrove bank robbery
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scooterbug44
SoWal Expert
I wondered what happened - a cop car flew by the house w/ sirens blaring - never seen them drive that fast on 30-A before!
ShallowsNole
Beach Fanatic
The bank employees and the surrounding businesses are in my prayers. Even if nobody was injured, that's a very scary thing to go through.
I thought I heard the chopper go up a little while ago, but honestly I can't tell anything with the construction on 331 making the building shake.
I thought I heard the chopper go up a little while ago, but honestly I can't tell anything with the construction on 331 making the building shake.
AAbsolute
Banned
That's interesting that you brought up the chopper. I saw it cruising low down 30A like it was doing visual and I didn't put two and two together. My wife was out at Bay with a classroom full of aware kindergarten students hangin' out with the lights off.
jessifunn
superJfunn
why do they sit with the lights off?
NoHall
hmmmm......can't remember
All the better to hide from the boogeymen, my dear.
The SOP in my classroom (which is printed in huge detail on a tiny card in my ID badge) is to close the doors, turn off the lights, get the students as far away and out of sight of the doors and windows as possible, and to not make a sound. I have 8 1/2 x 11 laminated cards to put in the glass on the door. The yellow one means that the room is locked down, all students are accounted for and none are injured. The red ones mean that someone is injured. Absence of a card in the window during lockdown means that security should assume we are dead or gravely injured.
In addition to this procedure, we keep the classroom doors locked all the time. I open them at the beginning and end of the class, but I close and lock them at the tardy bugle. Inconvenient, but I don't worry about any of us being attacked!
Bank Robbers are dumb!
Bank robber suspect ID'd by demand note
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March 18, 2009 - 1:45 PM
Andrew Gant and Kim White
Daily News
st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }WATERCOLOR - A man who said he was armed robbed a SunTrust Bank in South Walton County on Wednesday morning, but police caught up with him hours later.
Thomas Banno's demand note, investigators said, was written on the back of an old receipt that identified him.
The holdup occurred about 10:30 a.m. at the bank near the corner of County Road 395 and Lake Forest Drive at Watercolor.
Banno, 40, of Santa Rosa Beach, said he was armed, said Tammy Godwin, executive assistant to Sheriff Mike Adkinson, but "no one in the building actually saw the weapon, so we have to believe what he told us. I do know there were no injuries involved."
He had dropped off his girlfriend at a Publix grocery store and then parked his car behind it, according to the Sheriff's Office. Then he walked to the bank.
Godwin said she did not know whether there were any customers in the bank at the time. She would not release any other details, but the Sheriff's Office said it recovered a "large sum of cash."
A sheet of paper taped to bank's glass door early Wednesday afternoon said the business was closed "due to an emergency" and would reopen at 2 p.m.
Meanwhile, a helicopter and search dogs helped look for a suspect.
By 3 p.m., Panama City police had arrested Banno on an outstanding worthless check warrant and contacted the Sheriff's Office.
He matched the information on the robbery note. Walton County deputies went to Panama City, took Banno into custody and charged him with felony bank robbery.
He was being held Wednesday night at the Walton County Jail.
30A Skunkape
Skunky
I think crystal meth clouds one's sensibility.:roll:
Miss Kitty
Meow
Maybe all the banks should jsut add a drive through robbery lane. It's only going to get worse. It has here in the Big D.