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UPDATE, 3:57 p.m.:|The King County Medical Examiner’s Office has formally identified Cody W. Spafford, the man who was killed after police say he robbed a Madison Park bank with a fake gun yesterday. Spafford died of multiple gunshot wounds. His death has been ruled a homicide. Seattle police Assistant Chief Paul McDonagh identified robbery unit Detective Jim Rogers as the…

Update at 11:58 a.m.| Seattle police say the man has died of his wounds. Updated at 11:46 a.m.| Seattle police say a bank robbery suspect has been shot. His condition was not immediately known.Police say he may have been armed with a knife. He was confronted and shot in the 100 block of 39th Avenue East a short…

The King County Sheriff’s Office says a man who robbed a Covington bank today is the same man who hit an Auburn bank on March 3. Today’s robbery occurred just before 11 a.m. at the Chase Bank branch in the Fred Meyer store, 16700 block of Southeast 272nd Street. He passed a teller a note…

Of all the places to hide from police, this suspected bank robber probably picked the worst. According to Seattle police, the man robbed the Wells Fargo bank branch in the 400 block of Broadway around 9:40 this morning.  Witnesses told responding officers the robber left the bank and walked away. The man then ducked into a Top Pot Doughnuts shop…

Here’s proof not every would-be 12th Man is a good guy. Or honest. Yesterday, just before 7 p.m., the guy in the Seahawks knit cap, pictured at right, robbed a Chase Bank branch inside the Fred Meyer store at 801 Auburn Way North in Auburn. The man is described as 6-foot-3 with a medium build. If you recognize this…

The FBI and local law enforcement agencies today announced the arrest of a 44-year-old Everett man suspected to be a serial bank robber. The man is believed to be responsible for 30 bank robberies in King and Snohomish counties, according to the FBI. The robber’s disguises while carrying out the stickups have earned him two nicknames: “Cyborg Bandit” and “Elephant…

Seattle police are looking for a man who robbed the Umpqua Bank on Broadway just after 5 p.m on Friday. The suspect walked up to a service counter and handed the teller a note indicating  he had a gun and that this was a robbery, police said. The teller handed the suspect some cash and the suspect…

The Associated Press Detectives investigating a string of weekend bank robberies in Oregon were in the right place at the right time. The investigators were at a bank inside a Fred Meyer store in Portland Tuesday evening when two men held up the institution. Robbery detectives arrested the two men as they attempted to escape. Police say the…

OK, it is Halloween, but this guy isn’t trick-or-treating. At least not in the normal sense. The FBI has dubbed this bank robber the “Cyborg Bandit” for obvious reasons. They say he has robbed at least four different banks in the past two months, most recently in Bothell on Oct. 23. He’s also hit banks in…

A man wearing what police describe as a “Halloween-style scream mask” robbed a Wells Fargo bank branch on Queen Anne Hill this afternoon. Seattle police spokesman Mark Jamieson said officers quickly arrested the man, who was also wearing a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt. Police initially said they were searching for a second suspect. Details about the robbery at…