'Bearcat Bandit' charged in more bank robberies
Authorities in one more North Carolina city have charged an Ohio man suspected in approximately a dozen bank robberies in the Carolinas in the past three months.
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Burlington police on Wednesday charged Michael J. Dolphin, 47, of Loveland, Ohio, in connection with the Nov. 24 armed robbery of a Capital Bank branch on Huffman Mill Road.
Dolphin was arrested Christmas Day at a gas station in Mocksville after someone in a BB&T bank branch recognized him and called 911.
Investigators think Dolphin robbed banks in Durham, Greensboro, Mocksville, High Point, Winston-Salem, Burlington, Hickory, Statesville and Spartanburg, S.C., since October.
The robber was dubbed the "Bearcat Bandit," because he wore a jacket with the logo of the University of Cincinnati athletic teams.
Dolphin was being held in the Davie County Jail Thursday under a $750,000 bond.
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