May 10, 2008

Police seek credit union robber

By Mark Abramson / Daily News Staff Writer

Burlingame police are looking for a man who held up a credit union at gunpoint Friday morning.

The robber flashed a semiautomatic handgun when he robbed the Operating Engineers Federal Credit Union, 828 Mahler Road, at 10:45 a.m., police Cmdr. Mike Matteucci said.

"He went in, showed a black semiautomatic handgun and jumped the (teller's) counter," Matteucci said.

There was only one teller and a manager inside at the time of the robbery, and no one was injured, Matteucci said.

Police described the suspect as a 5-foot-10-inch black man in his 40s and weighing 240 pounds. He was wearing a motorcycle helmet, dark sunglasses, a fake beard, a camouflage jacket, orange T-shirt and blue jeans. He took an undisclosed amount of money and fled north on Bayshore Highway on a red motorcycle with black and white writing on it.

"The FBI is (also) looking into it. They are going to look at the surveillance images to see if he is connected to any other robberies," Matteucci said.

Matteucci said this robbery does not appear to be related to Tuesday's heist in which a duffel bag-toting white man wearing a black wig robbed the Union Bank of California at 1887 El Camino Real.



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