Oakland police are looking for a man charged with theft by deception after he used a slick con maneuver to allegedly steal cash from a borough TD Bank.
On June 21, the man “orchestrated a sleight of hand and diversionary money exchange” to swindle a bank teller of $200 in cash, the department said.
Though charges have been filed, police have not yet made an arrest.
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The alleged theft is less brazen than the April armed robbery of the bank, but though the suspect in this case has eluded police for longer, investigators are on his trail.
With help from Hackensack and Pompton Lakes police as well as the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, authorities used the bank’s surveillance cameras to identify the suspect as a 58-year-old West New York resident, whose name is being withheld pending an arrest.