Suspects In First National Bank Robbery In Custody

June 20, 2024 2:28 am

The North Strabane Township Police Department has announced that two individuals wanted in connection with the robbery, on June 5th, at the First National Bank on Route Nineteen, have been arrested and are in custody.  Police say Brandon Scerri and Kayla Pruett, both of Wellsburg, West Virginia, were arrested on Thursday near New York City.  they say Scerri was taken into custody after robbing another bank there.  Police say the arrest was made possible by working together with the FBI, The U.S. Marshals Service, Washington City Police, the Washington County District Attorney’s Office and other local police departments..  Authorities have said that they believe Scerri was the one who entered the bank and demanded money. They say the two were identified using their tattoos and driver’s license photos, along with the description of their car, a blue-colored Ford Focus.  Scerri got away with more than seventy-four-hundred-dollars in the robbery.  Scerri has also been named as a suspect in the robbery, two days earlier, of the Washington Financial Bank on Wiley Avenue in Washington.  (Photo:  North Strabane Township Police)