{"id":53318,"date":"2025-11-14T18:57:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53318\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T18:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:57:30","slug":"prosecutor-charges-detroiter-for-ferndale-bank-robbery-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53318\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor charges Detroiter for Ferndale bank robbery \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Detroiter is facing a felony charge for allegedly robbing a bank in Ferndale a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Oakland County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, Alvin Myron Murray, 68, is accused of handing a note to a teller at First Merchants Bank on Woodward Avenue on Nov. 10, demanding money. The teller complied.<\/p>\n<p>A witness subsequently identified Murray as the alleged thief, the prosecutor\u2019s office said. An investigation revealed Murray as the alleged robber in a similar crime at an Ann Arbor bank last month.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal charge for the Ferndale robbery was authorized on Nov. 13, court records show. As of early afternoon Nov, 14, arraignment was pending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBank robberies endanger employees and customers,\u201d Prosecutor Karen McDonald stated in a news release. \u201cThanks to law enforcement, the message to this defendant and any other would-be robbers is, you might get away from the scene, but you won\u2019t get away with the crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bank robbery is punishable by up to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoaklandpress.com\/2025\/11\/14\/2-firefighters-hurt-battling-blaze-in-southfield\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2 firefighters hurt battling blaze in Southfield<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Detroiter is facing a felony charge for allegedly robbing a bank in Ferndale a few days ago.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[17426,143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-53318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-bank-robbery","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}