MACON - Police are looking for a man who claimed to have a bomb on him during a bank robbery. <br>
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The Colonial Bank on Pio Nono Avenue was robbed Wednesday by the man and an accomplice, police said. The bomb proved to be fake, however. <br>
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Authorities said the suspect walked in the bank at 2:10 p.m., leaned over a counter and opened his jacket. A teller saw what appeared to be a timing device, said Macon police spokesman Sgt. Robert Carr. <br>
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The man told the teller he had a bomb, and it was set to go off in 20 minutes, Carr said. The teller gave the man an undisclosed amount of money, and he walked out, leaving the device behind. <br>
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The man got into a 1978 blue Lincoln Continental where another man was waiting outside. A witness saw the license tag number and gave it to police. <br>
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Bank employees realized the device was not a bomb, Carr said. <br>
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An officer, who recognized the description of the car as one he had pulled over before, went to a house on Thomas Street and found the Lincoln there. The men, however, had left in another vehicle. <br>
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The man who entered the bank was described as a 6-foot-tall man, slender and about 35-40 years old with a moustache. He wore sunglasses, a baseball cap and a dull gray sweater with a red T-shirt underneath.
