Family Helps Westminster Police Arrest PNC Bank Robbery Suspect

Police charged Charles Tavon Sanders, 29, of Charles Street, Thursday afternoon in the robbery of the PNC Bank on 132 W. Main Street in Westminster.  

According to a news release, the police were called at 12:30 p.m. July 7 after a man wearing black clothing and a plastic bag over his head entered the bank and handed the teller a note demanding money. When another teller approached, the man reportedly grabbed the cash from the teller's hand and fled the scene. 

No one was injured.

While officers were at the bank, relatives of the suspect approached police and said that the individual most likely involved had just voluntarily left a psychiatric facility and had told these relatives that he was going to rob a bank, according to the news release. Shortly after, the relatives found Sanders in the 100 block of E. Main Street and took him to his residence on Charles Street and called police. 

The money taken from the teller was recovered on Sanders, the police reported. He was charged with robbery, second-degree assault and theft under $1000.  He was held at the Carroll County Detention Center on $50,000.00 bond.