Apr 4, 2008 4:09 pm US/Pacific
Man In Electric Wheelchair Robs Palo Alto Bank
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An electric wheelchair similar to the one used by the bank robber.
CBS
Palo Alto police are looking for a bank robber who favors a decidedly slow-speed getaway vehiclean electric wheelchair.
Police said a wheelchair-bound man in his 60s with gray hair and a beard held up the Wachovia Bank branch at the Stanford Shopping Center late Thursday afternoon with a black handgun.
After the stickup, he left in his wheelchair and was last seen motoring down a nearby street toward El Camino Real, a major thoroughfare.
Witnesses said the man's legs were wrapped in bandages and his right leg was sticking straight out while he zoomed away.
Police were looking for a white Ford van that the suspect may have been hoisted into after the robbery.
Investigators don't know whether the wheelchair was just a prop or whether the suspect was truly disabled.
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