Clayton arrests 2 in MainSource bank robbery

UPDATE @ 2:30 p.m. (May 1): A 22-year-old man was caught hiding in the trunk of a getaway car after trying to rob the same bank for a second time, police said.

Clayton police Chief Matt Hamlin said Vincent Wright was found in the trunk of the car driven by Lorenzo Coles, 19.

Hamlin said the bank manager pointed at the car and indicated it was the getaway car. Police stopped the driver, identified as Coles, and asked for permission to search the car. He declined and was taken in for questioning.

Police had to get a warrant to search the vehicle and towed it to the Clayton Police Department. That’s where Hamlin said Wright got out of the trunk and surrendered.

Wright reportedly admitted robbing the MainSource Bank, on North Main Street, on April 22 and trying to rob the same bank Thursday. Hamlin said Wright got about $900 in last week’s robbery and spent it. Police found clothing from both robberies in the vehicle.

Greg Flannagan, spokesman for the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office, said Wright is charged with robbery and attempted robbery, both felonies. He is in the county jail on $100,000 bond, online jail record shows.

Coles was charged with felony complicity to commit attempted robbery, Flannagan said. He is in jail on a $50,000 bond.

Both are to be arraigned Monday in Vandalia Municipal Court.

UPDATE @ 10 a.m. (May 1):

Clayton police have arrested a second man in a robbery and attempted robbery of the MainSource Bank.

Vincent Wright, 22, is in the Montgomery County Jail on pending charges of robbery. He joins Lorenzo Coles, 19, who was booked into the jail Thursday afternoon. Official charges could be filed against the two in the near future, said Clayton police Chief Matt Hamlin.

Wright admitted to committing the robbery of the bank on April 22 and also admitted to attempting to rob the same bank Thursday, Hamlin said.

Coles is suspected of being involved in yesterday’s case, but was not involved in the April 22 robbery, Hamlin said.

Police captured Wright and Coles on Taywood Road following the attempted robbery after officers spotted the vehicle they were in leaving the bank, Hamlin said.

UPDATE @ 12:55 a.m. (May 1):

A 19-year-old man is in the Montgomery County Jail, detained pending the formal filing of a charge of robbery.

Lorenzo Coles was arrested just after 4 p.m. Thursday in the 6000 block of Taywood Road by Clayton police and booked into the county jail at 7:45 p.m., according to online jail records.

UPDATE @ 9:03 p.m.: (April 30)

Police believe the same man who robbed the MainSource Bank on April 22 is the same man who walked into the branch this afternoon, but ran off when he was questioned after someone in the bank recognized him as the robber.

A Clayton police officer said the man came into the branch about the same time he did a week ago and police think his intention was to rob the bank again.

Police believe the man had someone waiting outside for him today.

Police did seize a black sports car from the neighborhood near the bank and will process it for possible evidence they think will lead them to the robber. Police also gathered evidence from inside the bank as well.

UPDATE @ 4:35 p.m. (April 30):

Police are searching the neighborhood in the area of the MainSource Bank on North Main Street, looking for a man who may have robbed the bank on April 22.

Crime scene tape has been put up and customers are not being allowed to go into the bank.

Police also are studying video footage from surveillance cameras in the bank as part of their search.

UPDATE @ 6:55 p.m.:

The man who robbed the MainSource Bank said he had a handgun but never displayed it, Clayton Police Chief Matt Hamlin said.

The robber who was dressed in a navy hoodie with a stocking cap underneath and denim jeans was in the bank less than 40 seconds, Hamlin said, noting the robber was described as young, black (in his 20s), thin and about 6 feet tall.

He walked in about 4:50 p.m. and handed a teller a note, the chief said. “She gave him some money. It wasn’t very much.”

Hamlin said the only people in the bank at the time were the manager, two tellers and one other bank employee. No one was injured.

The MainSource robber does not fit the description of recent bank robbery suspects in Oakwood and Tipp City, the chief said. The man who robbed the Fifth Third Bank in Oakwood on Tuesday is white and authorities believe he also robbed a Fifth Third branch in Tipp City on April 11.

UPDATE @ 6:03 p.m.:

Police are looking for a male who came into the MainSource Bank on North Main Street, gave a teller a note and claimed he had a handgun.

A Clayton officer tells us the man grabbed cash and took off running west along Greenview Drive, toward Inwood Avenue and into a residential neighborhood. Police believe the robber may have had a vehicle parked in the area where he ran.

Police are awaiting the arrival of FBI agents and trying to recover footage from the bank’s surveillance system.

FIRST REPORT

Police and Montgomery County sheriff’s deputies are en route to a reported bank robbery at MainSource Bank, 8265 N. Main St.

The dispatch was issued just before 5 p.m.

We have a crew en route and we’ll update this report as we get information.