Traders Bank robbed in Ripley Saturday (Hur Herald Photo)
Bank robbers took an estimated $250,000 from the Traders Bank in Ripley yesterday and tried to escape on I-77 west into
Washington County, Ohio. Carlos Santos, 44, of Cleveland and Ervin Roddy, 51, of Sissonville were arrested after they
crashed their get-a-way vehicle and bailed out into the woods not far from Marietta.
The bank was robbed shortly before noon, with the two men leaving in a car. A few minutes later a Fairplain resident
called 911 saying two men were hurriedly changing vehicles in a suspicious matter. Police were then alerted and the chase
began.
Santos and Roddy crashed into a least a dozen vehicles during their escape attempt on I-77. Fortunately, no one was
seriously injured.
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