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INITIAL REPORT (Jan. 31)
The Farmers State Bank in the village of New Madison was robbed Friday evening for the first time in nearly 50 years.
The robber did not have a weapon during what Darke County Sheriff’s deputies called a “strong-arm robbery,” which was reported just before 6 p.m. at the bank, 101 S. Main St. Deputies who would not say how much cash he got away with.
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The suspect, a man in his 20s or 30s, was wearing a black hoodie pulled over his face, black pants and tan slippers, deputies said.
He left in a red or burgundy crew cab pickup truck.
Deputies said the last time the Farmers State Bank was robbed was in the 1970s by a man who had been riding a bicycle.
Credit: JIM NOELKER / STAFF
Credit: JIM NOELKER / STAFF
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