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. A search of the database lists one Georgetown robbery — the M&T Bank at 1420 Wisconsin Ave. NW in …

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Editor's Notebook: Bank Robbery, Earthquake and Hunger Strike

A look at a few of the most notable stories this week on Georgetown Patch.

Attempted Georgetown Bank Robbery Possibly Linked to Others Early Friday morning a man attempted to rob the brand new M&T Bank on Wisconsin Ave., NW in Georgetown by cutting his way through a wall from a neighboring building. D.C. Police and the FBI are investigating the incident and have indicated it may be related to two other similar attempted robberies. In all three cases, one or more suspect(s) have broken into a vacated business in order to gain entry to a neighboring bank: once into an M&T Bank on Wisconsin Avenue and twice into a Connecticut Avenue Bank of America. Anniversary of the Aug. 23 Earthquake While local and federal emergency management professional met in the shadow of the Washington monument to talk about lessons …

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