Suspect arrested in two bank robberies in Palm Desert

Police have arrested a 59-year-old Anaheim man on suspicion of committing two bank robberies that occurred in Palm Desert on June 26 and July 11.

Reese Westenberger was taken into custody on Tuesday, July 23, and booked into the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning on charges of two counts of robbery, according to a news release from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Westenberger was arrested in the 20 block of W. Beacon Ave. in Anaheim.

Officers were dispatched to a business in the 73-000 block of Highway 111 at 12:21 p.m. on Thursday, July 11, for a report of an alarm going off. Investigators said Westenberger did not use any weapons during the incident and no injuries were reported. He was said to be wearing a light-colored baseball cap, dark T-shirt and dark jeans.