Crime & Safety

Alleged Georgetown Robbers Included in New FBI Website

The agency is launching a national website highlighting unidentified bank robbers from around the country.

The FBI has launched a national website dedicated to identifying unknown bank robbers from the FBI’s 56 field offices, and it includes several who have allegedly committed crimes in Georgetown and DC.

The website, bankrobbers.fbi.gov, allows the public to search by the unknown robber’s nickname, robbery location and the date of the robbery. Each bank robbery is plotted on a Google map of the United States that can be viewed down to the street level.

The FBI wants to remove the threat of violence from financial institutions in our region by identifying and holding accountable those who commit these robberies, the agency said in a news release.

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A search of the database lists one Georgetown robbery — the M&T Bank at 1420 Wisconsin Ave. NW in August. FBI and MPD said the Georgetown incident may be related to two other bank break-ins. 

In fiscal year 2012, a total of 49 bank robberies occurred in Washington, DC, and Northern Virginia. This accounted for the fewest number of bank robberies in more than 10 years. Of those bank robberies, 15 occurred in Washington and 34 occurred in Northern Virginia.

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In FY2011, a total of 80 bank robberies occurred, with 23 in Washington and 57 in Northern Virginia.

Beginning Jan. 10, digital bus shelter billboards in Washington will feature the website along with surveillance pictures of unknown wanted bank robbers from Washington and Northern Virginia.

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