Public Tips Leads To Arrest Of Female Bank Robber: Police

CHARLOTTE, NC -- Charlotte police are crediting citizen tips for the arrest of a suspect they say robbed a Queen City bank earlier this week.

One day after walking into a southeast Charlotte bank and demanding money in a note passed to a teller, Shelly Deanne McClure has been arrested and charged with common law robbery, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police.

The brazen mid-afternoon heist occurred when a suspect police described as a white female, about 40 years old and wearing a blue T-shirt entered the BB&T bank at 1710 Sardis Road North on July 17 around 4 p.m. She handed the teller a note demanding money, CMPD said. After receiving it, she fled.

Citizen tips led police to identify McClure, 44, and later find her location, CMPD said. She was arrested July 18 by officers from CMPD’s University City Division. (Sign up for our free daily newsletters and Breaking News Alerts for the Charlotte Patch. iPhone users can download the Patch app in the App Store. Plus, like Charlotte Patch on Facebook.)

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