‘Obama-robber’ nabbed in Austria
April 1st, 2011 - 4:53 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 01 (ANI): Police in Austria have arrested a man suspected of robbing banks while wearing a mask of US President Barack Obama, soon after another heist.
The man, nicknamed the ‘Obama-robber’ by the media, struck at another branch near the town of Voecklabruck and held a bank employee at gunpoint before fleeing in a car, according to police.
The suspect is believed to be the same man, who has already robbed half a dozen banks in Upper Austria province since 2008, always wearing a mask of the US president, reports the Daily Telegraph.
It is thought he carried out his first robbery in November 2008, in Weilbach, but it was not until December 2009 that he donned the mask of Obama, to rob a bank in Kirchheim. (ANI)
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