Robber hits two Center City banks

At first he didn't succeed, so the robber tried again.

The bandit first attempted to hold up a PNC Bank on 19th Street near Chestnut about 11:40 a.m. Thursday, giving the teller a demand note and saying: "Yeah, give me the money."

The FBI said the teller stepped away from her station with a frightened look, prompting the assistant manager to come over and ask if everything was OK.

A pal of the holdup man stood several feet away and told the robber to leave. Both men fled with no money.

Seventy-five minutes later and 14 blocks away, the same robber allegedly entered TD Banknorth on Chestnut Street near 5th, the FBI said.

At 12:55 p.m., he put a blue zippered pouch on the counter and slid a demand note under the teller's glass partition.

"Don't move," the robber ordered. "This is a stickup. I have a bomb. Give me 10s and 5s."

The teller opened her drawer and slid $720 under the window. The robber put the money in the blue bag and said, "Don't move."

He walked toward the door, turned and repeated, "Don't move." Outside, he fled east on Chestnut Street.

The FBI described the robber as being in his mid-40s, about 5-feet-6 to 5-feet-7, with a medium build, 160 pounds, black with a medium complexion, with his hair cut short to balding. He wore a black cooking apron, a white T-shirt and blue jeans.

His accomplice was 5-feet-11, with a medium build, in his mid-to-late 40s, and was black with a dark complexion. He wore a black hat, a dark shirt and blue jeans. *