By James Peters

Suspected Salmon Arm bank robber charged

Apr 14, 2016 | 3:06 PM

SALMON ARM — Crown counsel has approved charges against a Vancouver Island man suspected in an armed bank robbery in Salmon Arm last month.

On March 23, a man walked into the BMO branch in Salmon Arm and gave a teller a note demanding money, with the note stating if she didn’t do it quickly, there would be trouble.

He was handed some cash and took off on foot.

A suspect was arrested in Merritt the next day.

Charges of robbery and using a disguise to commit an offence have now been laid against 31 year old Derek Rocco of Vancouver Island.

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