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Bank robber reportedly makes getaway on electric scooter

Posted at 1:09 PM, Oct 16, 2019
and last updated 2019-10-16 13:09:40-04

CHULA VISTA, Calif. -- The FBI and Chula Vista police are looking for a man suspected of robbing a bank in Chula Vista and making his getaway on a Lime scooter .

According to the FBI, the robbery happened on Oct. 14 at the Chase bank branch on Olympic Parkway.

During the robbery, a man wearing sunglasses flashed a gun and was able to get away with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Witnesses told police they saw the man fleeing on a Lime scooter.

The same man is also wanted in connection with a bank robbery in early October at a US Bank on Saturn Boulevard in south San Diego. He was last seen wearing a fedora hat, dark sunglasses and a scarf on his neck.

Anyone with information is asked to call Chula Vista police at 619-691-5151.

This story was originally published by Laura Acevedo at KGTV.