Crime & Safety

Cash Reward Offered in Exeter Bank Heist Case

Authorities said the same suspect may have robbed a bank in Somersworth in August.

Authorities are offering a cash reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest in an Exeter bank robbery case.

A suspect robbed the People's United Bank on Main Street on Mon., Oct. 7 at about 3:30 p.m. The suspect, described as a white male with a neck tattoo, was last scene fleeing on foot toward Lincoln Street.

Exeter police said the same suspect may have robbed a Citizen’s Bank in Somersworth on Aug. 21.

The suspect's tattoo was described as a dark-blue five-point star about 2 ½ inches in diameter. Police said the man is about 5-feet, 8 inches tall with a salt-and-pepper beard.

Tips can be made the Exeter Police Department. Anonymous tips can be made to Seacoast Crime Stoppers.


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