From the Skagit Valley Herald:
Floodwaters lead to arrest of suspected bank robber
Rising floodwaters Wednesday evening led to the arrest of a man suspected of robbing a Mount Vernon bank earlier that day.
Mount Vernon police were called about 6 p.m Wednesday to an area near Edgewater Park to the report of two people at a campsite who were surrounded by the rising waters of the Skagit River and needed help, Mount Vernon police Lt. Greg Booth said in a news release.
Initial rescue efforts by police, firefighters and the Skagit County Search and Rescue Team were unsuccessful, as conditions were deemed too dangerous, Booth said.
A U.S. Border Patrol rescue team responded to the scene and was able to rescue the man and woman about 2 a.m. Thursday, Booth said.
Because a K-9 unit had led police to that area during an earlier search for a suspect in a robbery at Skagit State Bank on Highway 536, Booth said police questioned the two and determined the man was the suspect in the robbery.
The derp is strong in that one. As Bugs would say, what a maroon.
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