Monday May 13th, 2024 7:05PM

Athens CPA arrested in $10,000 bank robbery

By The Associated Press
<p>Authorities dug up more than $10,000 from a recent bank robbery and a sawed-off shotgun in the backyard of a fashionable neighborhood after a certified public accountant was arrested in the case.</p><p>Police said Glenn Augustine, 48, was arrested by the FBI Tuesday in Michigan, where he and his family had gone for the holidays.</p><p>Its safe to say he was experiencing financial difficulties, Athens-Clarke County robbery-homicide Lt. Clarence Holeman said.</p><p>For several days, crime scene investigators had been around the Augustine residence in the Skyline subdivision, where doctors, lawyers and other professionals live.</p><p>Augustine had become a suspect hours after a man wearing a stocking mask entered the First American Bank branch on Thursday, fired a shotgun into the ceiling, ordered customers to the floor and demanded money from each of the tellers.</p><p>Employees of a finance company across the street had seen a man casing out the bank for three straight days before the robbery, pacing back and forth and repeatedly opening his car trunk. They thought he might be planning to rob them, so they wrote down his license plate number.</p><p>By the time police went to question Augustine, he had left with his wife and two sons for his in-laws house in Bellevue, Mich.</p>
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