Robbery at credit union branch
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Updated: July 02, 2009 8:06 PM
empted to stage a robbery at the Interior Savings Credit Union branch in downtonwn Kelowna on Thursday morning.
The man walked into the branch at Richter and Bernard shortly before 10 a.m. and gave the bank teller he approached a note which held a threat and demanded cash.
But police said the suspect became nervous waiting for the teller to respond to his cash demand, and fled the building empty-handed.
Police set up a perimeter guard around the credit union branch and deployed a helicopter to scout the area, but the suspect escaped.
Surveillance video shows the suspect to be a Caucasian male in his mid-20s, clean shaven with a bald head, about 5-foot-7 tall with a thin build.
He was wearing baggy grey sweat pants, white shoes, a black T-shirt with a white logo on the front and a light grey hoodie sweatshirt with a criss-cross pattern on it and had on a pair of white-rimmed glasses.
The police investigation is continuing.
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