UPDATE: Bank Robbery Investigation Continues in Mamaroneck

UPDATE: At approximately 12:36 PM this afternoon, Village of Mamaroneck (VOM) Police received a 911 emergency call from the Chase bank at 101 Mamaroneck Ave.  According to a release issued by the VOM Police an adult white male between the ages of 25 and 28, approximately 6 foot 3 inches tall entered the bank at 12:31 PM and passed a note to the teller demanding money.  No weapon was brandished.  The suspect fled on foot on to the Boston Post Road and was no where to be found when police arrived.

Mamaroneck Avenue between the Post Road and Prospect Avenue is still blocked to traffic as police investigate a midday bank robbery at the Chase branch.

Pedestrians are being allowed on the block but may not walk past the bank at 101 Mamaroneck Ave. without a police escort.

Several bank employees are inside the next door, said Mark Palancia, owner of the insurance agency.

Palancia, who came out to talk to reporters for a minute, said tellers told him a man, a stranger wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, came in and asked a teller for money, passing the teller a note.  

"She thought he was kidding," he recalled.

Palencia said he heard from the tellers that there wasn't a weapon involved and that the amount was only a couple of thousand dollars. 

He found about about the robbery because police came into his business. Then, he offered the branch's employees a place to sit down. 

Palancia said he's been there since 1983 and this is the first bank robbery next door. 

"No one was hurt—that's all that matters.  It's the best scenario that could have happened," he said.

Joy Arzaga, an employee of Palancia, said that she was shocked by the robbery.

"I was going to go there on my lunch hour and deposit something," she said about the bank she frequents.

Police say more information is forthcoming soon; return to Patch for updates.