Albemarle police search for man after bank robbery on Main Street

ALBEMARLE, N.C. — Albemarle police are searching for a man after a bank robbery Monday morning on East Main Street.

A man wearing a dark-colored shirt, blue jeans, dark tennis shoes and a camouflage-colored hat with a North Carolina Tarheel emblem entered the Wells Fargo bank around 10:15 a.m.

He passed a note to a teller demanding money, officials said. The clerk gave him an undisclosed amount and he fled the bank on foot.

The man ran across Third Street toward the courthouse behind a building on Main Street.

North Carolina SBI was called in to assist in the bank robbery.

Police are asking for help in identifying the man from surveillance photos.

If you have any information on this robbery, please call 704-984-9500 or you can leave an anonymous tip at 704-984-9515.

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