Crime Alert Berks: Bank robbery at Bally

This image from surveillance camera footage shows the robber handing a note to a teller during the robbery of the Truist Bank on Main Street in Bally on Thursday. (Courtesy of Bally Police Department)

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Offense: robbery

Date: April 29 around 11am

Location: Truist Bank, 706 Main St., Bally.

Suspicious: An unidentified white man wearing a medical mask, black cap and checked flannel shirt is believed to be driving a black Toyota sedan.

Police synopsis:

The suspect gave a teller a note saying he was armed and demanding money. After receiving an undisclosed amount of money, he disappeared. Police determined that the same man committed a silent robbery a day earlier at the First Commonwealth Credit Union outside Phillipsburg, NJ, about 40 miles northeast of Bally’s. According to Lopatcong Township, NJ police, the robber got into a black Toyota sedan. Investigators are unsure if the robbery is connected to that area or to New Jersey.

Anyone with information identifying the suspects is asked to submit an anonymous tip through Crime Alert using one of the methods described above.