Suspect in bank robbery turns himself in to Lake Forest Park police

Edmonds Police released this surveillance photo
of the suspect in the Chase Bank robbery April 13.

According to reports in the south Snohomish edition of the HeraldNet.com, a suspect in the robbery of the Chase Bank on Lake Ballinger Way, turned himself in to Lake Forest Park police after he was identified by members of the public responding to publication of the bank surveillance photo.

The holdup happened just after 4 p.m. on Friday the 13th of April at Chase Bank, 8105 Lake Ballinger Way. Lake Ballinger Way is one of the sections of SR 104, which runs from Lake Forest Park to the Edmonds waterfront.

A teller at the Whidbey Bank in the Ballinger neighborhood of Shoreline, also on SR 104, recognized him as someone who had been in the Whidbey Bank the same day.

Later, an anonymous tip provided the name of the suspect. a 28 year old man. He turned himself in a week after the robbery, on April 20. He was charged April 23rd with first degree robbery and released on $50,000 bail.