76-Year-Old Man Arrested for 30-Year-Old Bank Robberies

0:00It's March 24th. I'm Cory with The Story, and this is Sydney News Today, your AI-powered local news. A 76-year-old man has finally been arrested for two bank robberies that happened nearly 30 years ago in northern New South Wales. Police have been searching for him since the first incident on October 28th, 1996, in Kunabarbran, where he allegedly used a shotgun to wrap the bank and briefly held a female customer hostage before letting her go near his motorcycle. A few months later, on January 10th, 1997, he struck again on the mid-north coast in Laureatin, threatening staff with the same. Weapon, demanding cash in a duffel bag, and releasing a bank employee once he reached his getaway car. The break in the case came this week when detectives from the robbery and serious crime squad napped him in Queensland on Monday, based on old, interstate warrants, then extradited him to New South Wales the next day. He's now facing two counts of armed robbery, and two counts of detaining someone for advantage

1:02without injury, with a bail hearing set for later today, as authorities close the book on these long-cold cases.