The deposit from a local restaurant never made it to the bank one morning last week.
According to the Commerce Police Department, a 64-year-old white female employee of Hardee’s Restaurant was in the parking lot of Region’s Bank, North Elm Street, when an unidentified white male reached into the car, snatched the deposit bag, ran to a vehicle parked behind the bank and drove away.
The only description of the culprit was “a thin white male,” but police hoped that the bank’s surveillance system might have photographed the incident.
That marks the second time in two weeks in which a bank customer was victimized.
The week before, a woman leaving the drive-through of First Commerce Bank was at the red light by the bank when two black males hijacked her vehicle and forced her to drive to Athens.
That case remains under investigation
For all of the Commerce Police Department's incidents and arrests for the past week, see the July 9 edition of The Commerce News.
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.