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Rochelle Park bank robber may have had an accomplice, police say

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: “Fill it up,” a robber told a teller at the Bank of Rochelle Park this afternoon before making off with less than $5,000 — and possibly getting into a getaway car.

Photo Credit: Courtesy ROCHELLE PARK PD

Authorities were searching for him, as well as for a “person of interest” wearing a white t-shirt (photo, above) who was in the bank a half-hour earlier, Rochelle Park Police Chief Robert Flannelly said.

The robber came in around 12:45 p.m. wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, white sneakers and a black baseball cap with a logo on the front, Flannelly said (inset, above).

Holding a dark-colored scarf over his face, he “put a small white shopping bag with an unknown logo on the counter and told the teller ‘Fill it up’,” the chief said.

At one point, he “told the teller she was taking too long,” Flannelly said.

He fled out the main entrance of the bank, at the corner of Rochelle Avenue and Passaic Street, and may have gotten into a waiting car, the chief said.

Bergen County Sheriff’s K9 dogs tracked the scent to the area of Route 17 and Marinus Street, he said.

IMAGES: Courtesy ROCHELLE PARK PD

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