{"id":380275,"date":"2026-08-25T02:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380275\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T02:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:14:09","slug":"police-hunt-for-straw-hat-wearing-suspect-in-largo-bank-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380275\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt for straw hat-wearing suspect in Largo bank robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/largo-pd-bank-robbery-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Courtesy: Largo Police Department.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">LARGO, Fla. &#8211; Police are searching for a suspect that robbed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Largo<\/a> bank Monday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Largo bank robbery <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Largo Police Department said the bank robbery happened just after 1:30 p.m. at Valley Bank, which is located on East Bay Drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Largo police released images of the suspect, who they said went into the bank wearing a dark-colored sports jacket with a green button-down shirt, blue jeans, black sneakers and a straw hat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The suspect was last seen leaving the area on a dark-colored mountain bike, according to investigators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Bank robbery investigation active <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The bank robbery investigation remains active. Anyone with information related to the incident or the suspect is asked to contact the Largo Police Department at (727) 587-6730.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from the Largo Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Largo Police Department.\u00a0 LARGO, Fla. &#8211; Police are searching for a suspect that robbed a Largo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-380275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380275","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=380275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}