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Officials investigating the April 9 armed robbery at United Community Bank’s Homer Road office don’t have many leads.

A black male entered the bank at about 9:30, produced a small silver handgun, demanded money from a teller and made a clean getaway.

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Officials arrested a South Carolina man Thursday afternoon about a half hour after the armed robbery of the Banks Crossing branch of Northeast Georgia Bank following a chase that began in Commerce and ended in the median of U.S. 441 a few hundred yards from the Athens-Clarke County line.
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