(Source: The Knoxville News-Sentinel)
By The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.
Aug. 24--KNOXVILLE -- A serial robber believed to have struck 10 banks across the South is being featured on electronic billboards beginning this afternoon, according to the FBI.
Among the robberies are two in Jefferson City and Morristown last week.
Other locations include Edenton, Fayetteville, Hendersonville and Fletcher, N.C.; Forest Acres, Myrtle Beach and Mount Pleasant, S.C.; and Louisville, Ky.
The billboards are located throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Georgia and Alabama.
The suspect is considered armed and dangerous, according to the FBI.
The first of last week's robberies happened about 1:10 p.m. Tuesday at the Community National Bank, 156 E. Broadway Boulevard in Morristown, when a man armed with a handgun came into the bank and robbed it of an undisclosed amount of cash.
Less than an hour later, a man with a goatee and a ball cap robbed the First Tennessee Bank branch at 2301 E. Andrew Johnson Highway in Jefferson City with a black pistol, according to police.
The TBI earlier this month announced that it had joined a two-state investigation of a serial robber who had struck six banks this summer in the Carolinas.
The robber has entered the banks in the Carolinas since mid-May without a disguise, engaged a teller in conversation and then began shouting and threatening employees, according to the TBI.
He demands money and brandishes a black semi-automatic handgun. When the employees comply, he orders them to lie on the floor, grabs the money and flees.
The suspect is described as white, about 25, 5 feet 9 to 5 feet 11, 170 to 175 pounds.
He has short, reddish-brown hair and an unshaven goatee and tattoos on both forearms.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Johnson City office of the FBI, 423-282-8090. An unspecified reward is being offered.
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