Police seek figure seen leaving robbed bank

PORT ANGELES – The Port Angeles Police Department officers are seeking a man who was seen leaving Westsound Bank shortly after it was robbed on July 27.

Westsound Bank, on the southeast corner of the intersection of Front and Albert streets, was robbed at about 12:45 p.m.

At least one witness saw a young, slender, white male walk away from the bank that afternoon, said police in a news release.

The man was wearing clothing that matched the initial description of the robber – blue jeans, green jacket, white tennis shoes with some black on them and brown or taupe gloves, the press release said.

He was also seen carrying a black bag with a yellow stripe on it.

The robber had worn a paintball mast that obscured nearly all of his face.

The police department did not say the person seen walking away was being investigated as the robber, but instead described the man as a “person of interest.”

The press release said the person of interest was described as “pretty enough to be a girl” and had “porcelain white skin with a small mole on his right cheek and something on the bridge of his nose.”

The man’s hair was described as blondish red, fine and hanging down “to his earlobes if it had been straightened out.”

Images from the bank’s surveillance camera – which are too dark to be reproduced – show that the mask and the hood of the green jacket block a view of the robber’s face.

According to a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is assisting in the investigation because the bank is federally insured, the man told the tellers to hurry, and specifically asked tellers to empty the cash drawers that are usually out of sight.

The robber told the tellers “no bait bills” when one teller reached for a bill trap, which sends a silent alarm when all the money is removed from a cash drawer, said the FBI.

The robber alluded to having a weapon by saying “Hurry up, Hurry up. No one will get hurt,” but he did not reveal a weapon.

Police asked that anyone with information phone them at 360-452-4545.

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