MN bank robberies jump in December, FBI not sure why
The rate of year-end bank robberies is nearly triple what it was a year ago. A robbery at the Glenwood State Bank in Alexandria Thursday makes it 67 statewide in 2011.
The rate of year-end bank robberies is nearly triple what it was a year ago. A robbery at the Glenwood State Bank in Alexandria Thursday makes it 67 statewide in 2011.
There have been multiple incidents across the metro area.
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The FBI believes the man who robbed a U.S. Bank in Bloomington on Monday morning is the same suspect who robbed a bank in Fargo, North Dakota, on New Year's Eve. Anyone with information is asked to call 612-376-3200.
The suspect was convicted of armed robbery of the same bank back in 2007.
Maple Grove-based InterBank was among four banks in three states closed by federal regulators Friday. Great Southern Bank based in Missouri will taken over InterBanks's four branches in the Twin Cities metro starting Monday. The FDIC has now closed 21 failed U.S. banks this year.
The FBI is trying to determine whether a man suspected of bank robbery in southern Minnesota is the same man involved in a string of heists around the metro area. Authorities arrested the suspect after a bank robbery in Brewster, Minn.
Mark Wetsch is charged with 13 counts of armed bank robbery in various towns around Minnesota. He was arrested after a robbery in Brewster, Minnesota, last month. Authorities say he referred to other robberies.
The Bloomington bank that's been known as First Commercial will open its doors as part of Republic Bank & Trust on Monday. Regulators shut down the bank after closing on Friday. The FDIC arranged a sale of its assets to Republic, which is based in Louisville, Kentucky. It's Minnesota fourth bank failure this year.
Twin Cities banks are cashing in on the surge of multifamily construction, jostling to do business again with real estate developers, the Star Tribune reports. It's a sharp twist from the post-crash years when toxic concentrations of commercial real estate loans brought down so many small community banks and larger banks all but pulled out of construction and development lending.
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