COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- The thirteenth bank robbery in Colorado Springs this year happened Friday morning and ended with the arrest of a 20-year-old man.
Colorado Springs police got the call around 10:38 a.m. about a robbery at TCF Bank in the 4300 block of North Academy Boulevard near Montebello.
According to bank employees, the man entered the bank with a gun and got away with an undisclosed amount of cash.
As officers responded to the bank, they got a lead about a car possibly connected to the robbery, and they found a matching car at the intersection of Austin Bluffs Parkway and Nevada Avenue. As they tried to pull the car over, the driver raced off down Nevada.
The man tried fleeing from the car in the 2500 block of VanBuren near Wood, but officers were close, and the man didn't get far.
Police took him into custody and said items in the car indicated they did indeed have the correct car.
The same TCF bank was robbed Jan. 22, allegedly by two men who robbed seven of the 13 banks in the city and one in Fountain. In addition to this TCF Bank, the men also robbed a TCF Bank in the 5400 block of E. Woodmen Road.
Of the 13 bank robberies in 2011, 10 have been closed with arrests.
Timeline of bank robberies in Colorado Springs:
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