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Updated: 5:24 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004 | Posted: 4:33 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004

'Shopping Bag Bandit' Sought In Series Of Heists

Man Uses Plastic Shopping Bag To Carry Stolen Cash



BELLEVUE, Wash. —

Police are looking for a man they call the "Shopping Bag Bandit," who's struck businesses east and south of Lake Washington.

Video: 'Shopping Bag Bandit' Caught On Tape

The man used a plastic grocery bag to carry away cash stolen from businesses that included a fast-food restaurant, a check-cashing business, a gas station, a convenience store and a bank.

The businesses hit were in Bellevue, Federal Way, Kirkland, Redmond and Renton. Police from the five cities and agents from the FBI are working to identify and arrest the man.

The man is described as Hispanic or Middle Eastern, in his early 20s to mid-30s, and 5 feet 7 inches tall with a medium build.

He has worn a white or light tan baseball cap with an unknown logo, blue jeans or khaki cargo pants, a brown, long-sleeved, ribbed pullover sweater or a long-sleeved shirt with three broad burgundy, beige and blue horizontal stripes, and he may have worn rose-tinted sunglasses.

Anyone with information about the man should call 1-800-CRIME 13.

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