By Amanda Milkovits
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Photo courtesy Cranston Police
Surveillance camera still of robbery suspect.
CRANSTON, R.I. -- The Cranston police are searching for a middle-aged man who robbed a Washington Trust Bank branch and fled with the money in an attache case Tuesday afternoon.
The tall man in a nondescript gray sweatshirt walked into the bank at 1203 Oaklawn Ave. just after 4 p.m. and handed a threatening note to a teller, the police said. What appeared to be the butt end of a gun stuck out of the man's waistband.
The teller handed money to the robber, which he placed in his case and then ran out of the bank.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to contact Detective Paula Duffy at (401) 942-2211.