The Navy Federal Credit Union in the Southland Plaza Shopping Center on Saturn Boulevard in the South Bay area of San Diego was robbed at about 4 p.m. Monday, December 17, according to the San Diego Police Department According to San Diego Police Lt. Paul Rorrison, a man entered the Navy Federal Credit Union branch on 555 Saturn Boulevard at about 4:30 p.m. and told employees he had a gun and a bomb strapped to his body. The teller discretely added a small GPS tracking device to the undisclosed amount of cash she handed the suspect who then fled on foot. FBI agents and SDPD were able to track the money to a nearby residence in Imperial Beach less then an hour from when the robbery began. A perimeter was established around the home on California Street at Grove Avenue where the suspect was hiding and shortly after 5:15 p.m. took a man matching witness’ descriptions into custody. FBI agents on the scene were tight-lipped but a SDPD officer confirmed, “We got the guy we were looking for.” Witness Rhonda Smith was in the credit union to open a savings account with her son said “I was sitting right where I could see everything and didn’t see a thing. It wasn’t until a bank employee announced that we were on lockdown that we knew something had happened. Afterwards my son asked if we were still opening an account and I told him, maybe another time.”
The Navy Federal Credit Union in the Southland Plaza Shopping Center on Saturn Boulevard in the South Bay area of San Diego was robbed at about 4 p.m. Monday, December 17, according to the San Diego Police Department According to San Diego Police Lt. Paul Rorrison, a man entered the Navy Federal Credit Union branch on 555 Saturn Boulevard at about 4:30 p.m. and told employees he had a gun and a bomb strapped to his body. The teller discretely added a small GPS tracking device to the undisclosed amount of cash she handed the suspect who then fled on foot. FBI agents and SDPD were able to track the money to a nearby residence in Imperial Beach less then an hour from when the robbery began. A perimeter was established around the home on California Street at Grove Avenue where the suspect was hiding and shortly after 5:15 p.m. took a man matching witness’ descriptions into custody. FBI agents on the scene were tight-lipped but a SDPD officer confirmed, “We got the guy we were looking for.” Witness Rhonda Smith was in the credit union to open a savings account with her son said “I was sitting right where I could see everything and didn’t see a thing. It wasn’t until a bank employee announced that we were on lockdown that we knew something had happened. Afterwards my son asked if we were still opening an account and I told him, maybe another time.”