Police: Man Arrested After Tracy Bank Robbery, Bomb Hoax

TRACY (CBS13) — Authorities arrested a 66-year-old man who is accused of robbing a bank in Tracy while claiming he was armed with a bomb.

The Tracy Police Department said this happened at around 3:45 p.m. at a Wells Fargo on 11th Street.

The man, who is from Nevada, was able to get away with an undetermined amount of money and fled in a vehicle. Witnesses’ descriptions of the suspect and his vehicle helped officers locate the suspect and take him into custody on Corral Hollow Road.

All of the money was recovered and a bomb squad was able to determine the device was a fake, police said. Investigators had to secure the area while bomb technicians got an x-ray of the object to determine what it was. It was not an explosive device. It was a toiletry container that had wires in it.

The suspect was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail on charges of robbery and making criminal threats.

No injuries were reported in this incident.