Oxnard Man Arrested in Bank Robbery
The FBI has arrested an Oxnard man they believe robbed a Wells Fargo Bank in Ventura in early January, federal investigators announced Tuesday.
Arthur Leroy Weil, 35, was taken into custody by Oxnard police officers who stopped to question him.
When the officers ran his name through the National Crime Information Center’s records, they found that he was wanted on bank robbery charges, according to an FBI press release.
Weil was taken before a federal judge in Santa Barbara on Tuesday, held without bail and transported to the Ventura County Jail.
On Jan. 2, a man entered the Chestnut Street Wells Fargo branch and allegedly gave the teller a note demanding money and threatening to explode a bomb, the statement said.
As he fled the bank, the robber left the alleged bomb, which demolition experts later determined to be a hoax.
The Ventura Police Department and FBI named Weil as a suspect shortly after the robbery, and entered his name into the National Crime Information Center records.
FBI officials hope to bring the case before a federal grand jury in Los Angeles for an indictment within the next two weeks.
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