UPDATE: At 2:40 p.m. Saturday, the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety announced that it had arrested a suspect in connection with this morning’s bank robbery. The 36-year-old man from Kalamazoo is scheduled to be arraigned in court on Monday afternoon.
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Police are seeking a suspect after a bank was robbed Saturday.
At 9:58 a.m. Saturday, the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety responded to a report of a bank robbery in the 3100 block of Portage Street. Upon arriving at the scene, officers discovered that an unknown male suspect had entered the bank, demanded money from a teller, forcibly took cash from a desk after an altercation and fled the bank on foot.
Officers said the suspect later entered a gray sedan, which was last seen traveling at a high rate of speed northbound on Fulford Street from Miller Road.
The suspect is described as a tall, thin black male wearing black and white clothing and a black ski mask.
KDPS officers and a police dog conducted an extensive search of the area but were unable to locate the suspect. No arrests have been made.