$2,500 reward offered to catch 'Lucky Bandit' bank robber

FBI believes same man robbed 7 Broward County banks since October

MIRAMAR, Fla. – The FBI is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a serial bank robber in Broward County.

FBI spokesman Jim Marshall said the same man is believed to have robbed seven banks and attempted another since October.

Investigators are calling the man the "Lucky Bandit" because he has robbed seven banks without wearing a disguise or being identified.

The first robbery occurred Oct. 4 at a Wells Fargo branch in Pembroke Pines. The FBI believes the same man robbed two more banks in January, two in March and three in April.

The man robbed a pair of Chase branches on Sheridan Street in Cooper City on Jan. 5 and another on Pines Boulevard in Pembroke Pines on Jan. 12.

The man returned to the same branches in March, robbing the Cooper City location March 16 and the Pembroke Pines location March 31.

He was most active in April, first robbing the Chase branch on Taft Street in Hollywood on April 15 and then robbing two other banks minutes apart on April 29 -- a Citibank on Pines Boulevard and a Wells Fargo branch on University Drive, both in Pembroke Pines. The Wells Fargo branch was the same one he robbed in October.

"I think he's become habituated to the situation," FBI Special Agent Michael Leverock told Local 10 News. "I think he just calmly walks in. It's almost becoming a regular job for him, and we need to put a stop to it."

Marshall said the robber is believed to have used a late-model black Mazda Tribute as a getaway vehicle in at least one of the robberies.

In each of the robberies, the man was wearing either a hat or a skull cap.

Anyone with information about the man's identity is asked to call the FBI office in South Florida at 754-703-2000.

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