FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The Fort Pierce Police Department (FPPD) is seeking a man who is accused of robbing a Truist Bank. <\/p>\n
At about 12 p.m. on Thursday, FPPD responded to a robbery at the Truist Bank, located at 700 Virginia Avenue. The investigation revealed, that a masked man entered the bank, handed a note to a teller demanding money and told the clerk he was armed. <\/p>\n
Police say the clerk gave an undisclosed amount of money to the suspect who fled on foot, heading north through the bank parking lot. <\/p>\n
See also: New video shows thief in Florida Nike sneaker heist<\/a><\/p>\n Officers describe the suspect a man wearing black pants, a long-sleeve black shirt, a blue surgical mask and a wide-brimmed hat. Following the robbery, the police department established a perimeter and conducted an extensive search using K-9 units, drones and the sheriff’s office aviation unit. <\/p>\n Despite search efforts, the suspect was not located, police say. <\/p>\n Anyone with information is asked to contact the Fort Pierce Police Department at 772-467-6867 or contact the Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 800-273-8477. <\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The Fort Pierce Police Department (FPPD) is seeking a man who is accused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3886,667,15184,15183,132,171,173,172,14040,285,14985],"class_list":{"0":"post-18278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-fort-pierce","9":"tag-investigation","10":"tag-k-9-units","11":"tag-masked","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-port-st-lucie","14":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","15":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","16":"tag-robbery","17":"tag-suspect","18":"tag-truist-bank"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}