By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Police have a suspect in custody following a bank robbery in Oakville this morning.
Officers called about 9:20 a.m. to the Sterling Savings Bank on U.S. Highway 12 learned a male brandishing what sounded to be a foot-long knife threatened the tellers and made off with cash out a side door, according to the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office.
They since concluded his 25-year-old girlfriend was driving a getaway car, Undersheriff Rick Scott said.
Nobody was hurt and the amount of money stolen was not disclosed.
Officers from the Chehalis Tribal Police, McCleary and even the state Department of Fish and Wildlife assisted in setting up containment this morning, Scott said.
Law enforcement developed information that it sounded very similar to a hold up at a convenience store in Aberdeen late last night, Scott said. They began to look for a 23-year-old Hoquiam man, he said.
Early this afternoon, the man’s vehicle was stopped in Aberdeen and both individuals taken into custody, he said.
Police recovered some of the money and some items they say implicate the pair in the robbery, but not the weapon, according to Scott.
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