Man arrested in SunTrust Bank robbery
Durham police arrested a man for allegedly committing the second robbery at the SunTrust Bank on Corcoran Street this week.
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Investigators charged Robert Tyrone Scott, 51, of Durham, with common-law robbery. He was being held in the Durham County Jail under a $120,000 bond Thursday.
Officers said that Scott entered the bank around 9:20 a.m. and handed a teller a note demanding money. He left on foot with an undisclosed amount of money.
No one was injured, and no weapons were used in the robbery, officers said.
Police broadcast a description of the robber, and Officer J.L. Hamilton stopped Scott, who matched the description, at a parking deck on Pettigrew Street. Hamilton arrested Scott and took him in for questioning.
Scott was most recently convicted of a crime in 1991, when he served 2 1/2 years for assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, according to state Department of Correction records. He was twice convicted of common-law robbery in the early 1980s and late 1970s.
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