76-Year-Old Bank Robber Caught After 30 Years

0:00It's March 24th. This is Sydney News Today, AI-powered stories from your city. A 76-year-old man is finally in custody after nearly 30 years on the run for two bank robberies in regional New South Wales. The first happened on October 28, 1996, at a bank in Kuna Barberin, where the suspect allegedly used a shotgun to grab cash and took a customer hostage before escaping on a motorcycle. This month's later, on January 10, 1997, a similar robbery went down in Lorienton near Port McCory, with a man again wielding, a shotgun, filling a duffle bag with money and holding a bank employee until he reached his getaway car. Police issued a arrest warrant back in 1997 for the then 47-year-old suspect, but he evaded capture until now. Officers from New South Wales and Queensland, nabbed him in the sunshine state this week, untradited him to tweed heads and charged him with two. Counts of armed robbery and two counts of unlawful detention, he was denied bail and faces

1:02court today, closing the book on these long-cold cases.