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3 MEN SOUGHT IN BANK ROBBERY DISGUISES USED IN MORNING HEIST.


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 carried out by a gunman disguised in a ski mask and a companion in a shoulder-length dreadlock wig.

The robbers escaped in a stolen rental car driven by a third man, sheriff's deputies said.

No one was injured in the takeover-style robbery Friday morning at a Bank of America
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Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world.
 branch in the 44400 block of 20th Street East, deputies said. The amount of money stolen was not disclosed.

The getaway vehicle was later found abandoned at an apartment complex about a quarter-mile from the bank. It turned out to have been stolen earlier in the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  area.

Deputies believe the men had a second vehicle waiting for them because a search of the complex turned up no sign of the robbers.

Deputies said they received a 911 call about 9:33 a.m. Friday from inside the bank and could only hear yelling in the background. Then they were alerted by a robbery alarm from the bank.

The robber armed with a silver revolver was described as a black man about 5-foot-10 wearing black clothing and a black ski mask.

His companion was described as a black man, about 6-foot-2 and wearing a dreadlock wig, khaki khaki (kăk`ē, kä`kē) [Hindi,=dust-colored], closely twilled cloth of linen or cotton, dyed a dust color. It was first used (1848) for uniforms for the English regiment of Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden in India and later became the  pants and a red-and-tan plaid flannel flannel, large group of napped plain-weave or twill-weave fabrics made of cotton, wool, or man-made fibers. Flannel fabrics vary in closeness or firmness of weave and in degree of napping.  shirt. The getaway driver was described only as a black man.
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Date:Jul 23, 2005
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