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Arrest made for bank robbery

A man police say robbed a bank, while wearing a lab coat, is now in jail.

Stanley Purtee was arrested early this morning after some bail bondsmen found him in Ohio.

Surveillance video caught the robbery on tape Thursday, at the Citizens Deposit Bank in the Firebrick community of Lewis County.

Police say Purtee was actually free on bond at the time. He was charged with robbing an Ohio bank in January.


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