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Apr 4, 2008 4:09 pm US/Pacific

Man In Electric Wheelchair Robs Palo Alto Bank

 CBS 5 CrimeWatch

PALO ALTO (AP) ― Palo Alto police are looking for a bank robber who favors a decidedly slow-speed getaway vehicle—an 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.

(© 2008 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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