Grants bank robber’s photo is released

This security camera image shows a man who attempted to rob a Grants bank Friday. [Courtesy Photo]

By Cibola County Bureau

GRANTS — Grants police have released photos of a man who robbed a Grants bank Friday afternoon at 3 p.m., just as Grants State Bank on Santa Fe Avenue was closing.

Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact CrimeStoppers at (505) 287-8400 or the Grants Police Department at (505) 287-4404 any time day or night.

A reward may be offered fro the arrest of this individual and an unidentified woman was at the wheel of a car that was waiting outside the bank's door.

The suspect is identified as white or Hispanic, 5-8 or 5-9 in height wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with white lettering.

The robber passed a note to the teller asking for all her money and no one would get hurt but when the teller told him she had no money he fled the bank and the man left the bank with the woman in the car.