Officers responded to a robbery at about 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Westside branch of Whitewater Commercial Bank, which is located at Sentry Foods at 1260 W. Main St., Whitewater, a news release from the Whitewater Police Department said.
The suspect reportedly was carrying a brown paper grocery bag and a computer bag containing two blue cylinders. During the incident, the suspect told a teller that the computer bag held a bomb, Whitewater police reported.
The suspect took an undisclosed amount of cash from a teller and fled through an east exit at the grocery store.
Via “Authorities investigating Whitewater bank robbery, bomb threat” by Latest News — GazetteXtra.