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# Branching out: U.S. Bank gets robbed again
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/branching-out-u-s-bank-gets-robbed-again/
- Published: 2005-02-08T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:04:19.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Crime, Downtown, #archive-import

*Bank is targeted again, this time during night*

*By Daily Press staff*

DOWNTOWN — Just days after the U.S. Bank on Santa Monica Boulevard was robbed at gunpoint, another branch was burglarized.

Authorities said a suspect this past weekend smashed through a glass door at the U.S. Bank at Fourth Street and Wilshire Boulevard, forced into a cash drawer and stole an undisclosed amount of coins.

The bank was closed at the time of the burglary, but a surveillance video showed the suspect to be a thinly built, bald male in his 40s, wearing a black jacket, according to Lt. Frank Fabrega of the Santa Monica Police Department.

“It appears that the incident happened throughout the night,” Fabrega added.

The bank was closed for much of the day Saturday, and customers were directed to the U.S. Bank on Santa Monica Boulevard, where cautious security guards were letting customers in one at a time.

The U.S. Bank on Santa Monica Boulevard was robbed at gunpoint last Wednesday by a suspect described as a black male in his late 30s. The same branch was also robbed on Jan. 8 by a white man in his late 50s who threatened a teller with a weapon and handed over a note saying, “give me all of your hundreds and fifties,” according to FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller.

Last July, police cordoned off four square blocks for five hours after the bank’s security guard apparently chased another suspected robber, who exited the back door of the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash, authorities said. The suspect in that robbery was described as a black man, between 34 and 40 years of age.

Fabrega urged anybody with information to contact the SMPD at (310) 458- 8491.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 8, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/020805.pdf?ref=smdp.com)