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Robbery Suspect Possibly Linked To 'Skateboard Bandit'

Colter Johnson Arrested In Point Loma Heights

POSTED: 4:30 am PDT September 3, 2010
UPDATED: 4:15 pm PDT September 5, 2010

FBI agents seized more than $2,200 in cash and an Airsoft pellet gun at the home of 25-year-old man arrested Thursday and suspected of robbing a Poway bank and getting away on a skateboard, it was reported Saturday.

Colter Stanley Johnson was arrested in his sport utility vehicle after leaving his home on Chatsworth Boulevard near Oliphant Street about 8:55 p.m. Thursday.

Johnson is accused of robbing the Chase Bank on Poway Road about 3:30 p.m. Thursday, FBI Special Agent Darrell Foxworth told The San Diego Union- Tribune.

Two other banks in San Diego, one in the Midway District and one in Torrey H/ighlands, were robbed in July by a man the FBI had dubbed the "Skateboard Bandit" because he carried a skateboard during the holdups.

San Diego police Sgt. Joe Steffen said Friday that detectives and the FBI are trying to determine whether Colter is responsible for other robberies.

According to the criminal complaint filed Friday in federal court, the man who robbed the Chase Bank on Thursday carried a skateboard and wore a black bandanna over his mouth.

He confronted a teller, lifting his shirt to show the handle of a gun, and demanded money. After the teller handed over the contents of the cash drawer, he went to another teller and repeated the drill.

The robber fled into an alley on a skateboard, but a witnesses followed him and jotted down the license of a white SUV he got into, the Union-Tribune reported.

Johnson was found to be the co-registrant on the 2003 Mitsubishi Montero, the complaint said.

On July 12, a man with a skateboard robbed a Comerica Bank on Rosecrans Street, using the same mode of operation.

The FBI said that the same man is believed to have robbed the Wells Fargo Bank on Highland Village Place on July 23, the Union-Tribune reported.
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