BONHAM, Tex. (KXII) – The FBI is searching for a suspect in a Bonham bank robbery that happened Friday morning.
A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of a Bonham bank robbery suspect.
“That’s scary for this community because you know, it’s such a small community you don’t know,” said Frances Austin, who planned to go to the ATM at CapTex Bank off Highway 78 around 8 Friday morning.
“But decided not to, so I think the good Lord was saying hey, don’t go there right now,” she said.
She ended up going later, but by then, it was blocked off by police.
“Cause I had my turn signal on to turn in here and then it was all blocked off so I just kept on going,” Austin said.
Around 7:40 a.m. Friday, Bonham police say a man followed a teller inside the back of the bank when she was going into work.
Police said he told her to unlock the safe, then told her and two other tellers to give him their cellphones and go into the bathroom, which he locked by taping a chair to the door handle.
They told officers they never saw a weapon.
Federal, state and local investigators were on scene for hours after it happened.
For customers like Gary McCain, it was a setback on the deadline day to pay property taxes. He wanted to make sure he had enough money.
“I was going to transfer some from my savings account. Couldn’t do it. There were police cars everywhere,” McCain said.
So he came back in the afternoon, but the bank was closed for the day.
McCain said he’ll just do the transfer online.
“Geez, here I am. I hope I have enough money to cover the taxes,” McCain said.
Police said the man got away with cash, though they haven’t said how much. He is believed to be driving a light-colored sedan.
Officers say the suspect is a white male who was wearing camouflage and gloves.
Police said the tellers were trapped in the bathroom until another employee came, and they screamed for her to leave saying they’d been robbed.
Officers eventually got them out.
The FBI Sherman office is leading the investigation.
A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the suspect’s arrest. Anyone with information is asked to call the Bonham Police Department at 903-583-2141.