The "Holiday Bandit" has been busted, according to the FBI. The feds are reporting that a joint FBI/NYPD task force picked up 6"5' suspected bank robber Marat G. Mikhaylich without incident this morning around 9:30 a.m. in Queens after being tipped off that a stolen 2007 Camry which he used in a Edison, New Jersey, robbery yesterday was found on 91st Avenue.
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Police Grinches End "Holiday Bandit" Bank Robbing Spree
"Holiday Bandit" Still On The Loose, Now In New Jersey
After he robbed seven New York City banks starting around the holiday season, the FBI has yet to catch Marat G. Mikhaylich, AKA the "Holiday Bandit." But we seem to be out of his crosshairs, at least for now. Police say that Mikhaylich is the man behind Friday's robbery at Sovereign Bank in Woodbridge, NJ. FBI spokesman Peter Donald said, "He continues to be a problem."
The "Holiday Bandit" Strikes Again!
Marat G. Mikhaylich is one brazen crook. Just days after the so-called "Holiday Bandit" (because his crime spree started around the holidays last December) held up not one but two tellers at a Capital One bank in Brooklyn, the 6'5", Russian-speaking, robber now at the top of the FBI's most wanted list struck again, this time hitting up the Investors Savings Bank in Astoria, Queens. And despite police helicopters circling and everything, the bandit, who doesn't appear to have a getaway car, got away from this one too!
Watch Out For The "Holiday Bandit"
The FBI is looking for Marat G. Mikhaylich, nicknamed the "Holiday Bandit," after he robbed his sixth New York bank yesterday. He held up the Capital One bank at 4612 14th Avenue in Brooklyn yesterday morning, demanding cash from two tellers before fleeing on foot. However, we were gravely disappointed to find that he seems to have got his nickname by robbing banks vaguely around the holiday season. Couldn't he have dressed like Santa or even a festive Darth Vader like a normal robber?
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