Bank Robbery Suspect Arrested

Sun., April 2, 2000

From Staff

Spokane police arrested a man Saturday morning who is wanted by the FBI for bank robbery.

Timothy Binford, 32, is one of four men sought in connection with the late February hold-up of a bank in Rockford. Two other men have been arrested and the fourth, David D. Pegram, is at large.

Early Saturday morning, Binford spent an hour riding around Spokane in a cab, police said. When Binford saw police cars converging in the 900 block of North Washington, he bolted from the cab and was caught after a chase on foot, police said. It was unclear Saturday night how police tracked Binford to the cab.

Officers who searched him found a small packet of cocaine in his eyeglass case. Binford was booked into jail for possession of a controlled substance and on an unrelated assault warrant.

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