{"id":44749,"date":"2021-09-08T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fbi-looking-for-suspect-in-2-bank-robberies\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:21:10","slug":"fbi-looking-for-suspect-in-2-bank-robberies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fbi-looking-for-suspect-in-2-bank-robberies\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI looking for suspect in 2 bank robberies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=128787ad-3319-5157-b8e5-3ba8545f7917&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Blotter lights\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Blotter lights<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The FBI seeks the public\u2019s help in finding a suspect in two recent bank robberies in Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p>First Financial Credit Union, 831 Juan Tabo Blvd., was robbed at <ins id=\"inlinenote-5de9ea6b3786f4f86dd7ab4058b50bcb\"><\/ins>4:36 p.m. Sept. 1, said FBI spokesman Frank Fisher.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is also wanted in connection with a robbery at First Convenience Bank, 2266 Wyoming Blvd. NE, on Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as a Hispanic or Black male in his 30s to 40s. He was 5 feet, 10 inches tall, weighed 180 to 190 pounds and had brown hair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wore a red baseball cap with a blue front; a white T-shirt over a blue long-sleeve shirt; blue jeans; a blue, wrap-around mask; and white shoes,\u201d the news release said.<\/p>\n<p>At First Financial Credit Union, the suspect lifted his shirt to show the teller a gun in his waistband and demanded money, the release said. He collected an \u201cundisclosed amount of money\u201d and headed north on Juan Tabo Boulevard on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the robberies is asked to call the FBI at (505) 889-1300 or Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at (505) 843-STOP.<\/p>\n<p>Bank robbery carries a possible prison term of up to 20 years, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe use of a gun, other dangerous weapon, toy gun or hoax bomb device during the commission of a bank robbery can be punishable by a prison term of up to 25 years,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said this was a different man than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/articles\/fbi-increases-reward-for-information-about-serial-bank-robber\/\" id=\"link-724ae56726a01c7a6bb741d7cdc6a0f7\" target=\"_blank\">man who robbed seven banks in a month<\/a> in New Mexico. That man is still at large, and the reward amount for information leading to his arrest is $5,000.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-e8048e9a2e081998599e9a6fd255b175\"><a href=\"mailto:mitchell@durangoherald.com\">mitchell@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incidents took place about a week apart in Albuquerque<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,799,28,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86212,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44749\/revisions\/86212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44749"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}