Update: Armed Robber Hits Chase Bank at Ashford and Broadway; Schools on "Lock-In"

Police have strung yellow tape around the Chase Bank at 12 Ashford Ave. in Dobbs Ferry, which was robbed this morning—otherwise one would have no idea the bank in the village's gateway intersection had been the scene of a crime. 

Police have sent out a bulletin about the suspect, an armed man about 6 feet tall with a thin build, black, who appeared to be in his 20s, and who was wearing blue pants and a hooded sweatshirt, dark sunglasses and a mask covering the rest of his face, said Dobbs Ferry police Sgt. Vincent Ingani. 

All three Dobbs Ferry public schools—which are within half a mile of the Chase bank— are on "lock-in," which means students and faculty can move within the buildings, but nobody can enter or leave. School officials do not know when the lock-in will be lifted. 

The Dobbs Ferry schools issue this statement on Friday morning: 

"To be safe, staff and students are to remain in the buildings. As a precaution, we have been advised by [Police] Chief Gelardi to keep all of our schools in lock in/out mode until the end of the school day. All of our outside doors have been secured by staff members and no one is being allowed in without identification."

Dismissal and after-school activities will proceed as usual. 

Dobbs Ferry Trustee Bill Flynn was at the bank this morning, speaking with Mayor Hartley Connett on his cell phone.

"We don't have any additional information," Flynn said. "But this is very concerning, especially after something similar happened in Hastings."

He also mentioned that his son, a seventh-grader at , was upset that his class would not be able to hear a speaker who was scheduled to give a presentation at the school today.

The deli across the street was open—but no one noticed unusual activity, said Joe Sanzo of .

"I didn't see anything; nobody looks for that sort of thing in Dobbs Ferry," Sanzo said.

Two Chase branches nearby were robbed in December, one in Hastings of $14,000 by a lone man with a gun, and one in Yonkers the same afternoon of $410,000 by a trio of armed, masked men.

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