McClendon was arrested on March 11 after Springfield Police Divison officers were dispatched to Security National Bank at 920 W. Main St. after dispatched dropped an emergency tone for a bank robbery, a police report said.
Dispatchers told police a suspect had entered the bank and showed a note to the teller. It is unclear what the note said.
When officers arrived, bystanders told them about two male suspects on bicycles that fled from the bank, the report said.
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“Suspect Damon McClendon was apprehended in the area of West Main Street and North Yellow Springs Street and evidence was recovered from him linking him to the robbery,” the report said.
Both McClendon and another suspect, Lion Minor, were then taken back to the bank where the teller positively identified McClendon as the person that passed the note and received an unknown amount of cash.
“(The teller) stated Mr. McClendon came into the bank, produced a written note demanding cash and gave her a shopping bag to put it in,” the report said. “She placed the money in the bag and Mr. McClendon fled the bank on foot.”
The March robbery at Security National Bank’s West Main location was the fifth in a little more than a year. The bank’s president, John Brown, said the near-constant robberies have caused the bank to make the decision to close the branch for good.
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