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Surrey Search For A Wig-Wearing Suspected Bank Robber Has Ended With His Arrest

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 19 Jan, 2016 12:51 PM
    SURREY, B.C. — A man wanted in Surrey, B.C., for wearing a unique disguise during a bank robbery is now in custody.
     
    RCMP say the 39-year-old Surrey resident has been identified and arrested.
     
    Police asked for public help identifying the man following the heist at a financial institution near the Guildford Town Centre on Dec. 29.
     
    The man was wearing a patterned dress, white wool sweater, a long blond, curly wig and a pink toque that partially obscured his face.
     
    In a release issued Tuesday, Mounties confirmed the man was in custody, but did not release his name or say what led them to him.

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