Suspect arrested in Raleigh bank robbery
Raleigh police have arrested a suspect in the robbery of a bank in the Cameron Village shopping center in Raleigh Friday afternoon.
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Walt Christopher Best, 38, was charged Sunday with one count of strong-arm robbery in connection with the robbery of the Bank of America branch at 321 Oberlin Road.
Police said that a passed a note to a teller demanding money, then fled on foot with an unreleased amount of cash.
Police said that surveillance photos released publicly after the robbery helped pinpoint Best as a suspect.
He was placed in the Wake County jail Sunday.
Best was convicted in the early 1990s of a string of break-ins and larcenies in Wake, Harnett and Franklin counties, according to state Department of Correction records.
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