Las Vegas Sun

April 23, 2024

Teller triggers alarm; bank-robbery suspect leaves without cash

Empty-handed bank robber

Las Vegas Metro Police Department

About 11:25 a.m. Wednesday, Metro Police say, this person went to a teller’s window at a bank in the area of South Rainbow Boulevard and West Warm Springs Road and presented a note demanding money. Police are trying to identify the suspect, who left the bank with no money after a teller pulled an alarm.

Area of bank robbery

Metro Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the person who reportedly tried to rob a bank Wednesday in the southwestern valley.

Police said that about 11:25 a.m., the suspect went to a teller’s window at a bank in the area of South Rainbow Boulevard and West Warm Springs Road and presented a note demanding money. When the teller activated an alarm, the suspect – without any of the bank’s money – left quickly.

Police describe the suspect as a black female in her 40's, about 5-feet-6 with a medium build and shoulder-length, straight, black hair. She was wearing prescription eyeglasses, a blue shirt, blue jean shorts.

Anyone with information about the attempted robbery can call Metro’s robbery

section at 702-828-3591 or, to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555.

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