Salem man arrested and charged with four bank robberies

As part of their investigation into a series of armed bank robberies in Salem and Albany, Salem detectives arrested a 50-year-old man Tuesday evening.

The Salem Police SWAT team obtained a search warrant for a residence in the 2200 block Lee ST SE and arrested the man.

Police identified him as the prime suspect in three bank robberies in Salem and one in Albany within ten days.

The first robbery occurred on May 21 at Valley Credit Union, 2096 Mission St. SE.

Another took place on May 23 at Chase Bank, 5135 Commercial St. SE.

The third occurred on May 28 at KeyBank, 1500 Edgewater St. NW.

And the fourth took place on May 31 in Albany at the Northwest Community Credit Union, 707 Waverly Drive SE.

Each of the robberies in Salem occurred in the afternoon hours. The crime involved an adult male suspect who displayed a gun, demanded money from the bank clerk and disappeared with varying amounts of cash.

According to police, no bank employees were injured in any of the incidents.

After the second robbery, police noticed a pattern in the cases.

“This sounds like the same modus operandi as the guy outside Mission,” an operations officer reported on May 23.

The FBI’s Portland field office and the Albany Police Department assisted Salem police in their investigation.

The Statesman Journal reported on the series of bank robberies last week.

The man was arrested without incident at 7 p.m. Tuesday at a home in southeast Salem and taken to the Marion County Jail.

The Statesman Journal is not releasing the suspects’ names until they are arraigned in court. The man is scheduled to be arraigned in Marion County District Court at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday on three counts of robbery, three counts of theft and three counts of menacing. Additional Linn County charges related to the Albany robbery are pending.

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