Interstate Bandits Captured

The two men known as the “Interstate Bandits” are in police custody. Officers in Edison, New Jersey arrested Malik Dillard on July 21, 2008 after a robbery at a PNC Bank. The next day investigators arrested Zarqurous Lequis Sanders in a hotel room in Lincoln, Alabama.

Both men are suspected in connection with more than a dozen bank robberies dating back to May 8, 2008 along interstate highways in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, New Jersey and Maryland . Five were in North Carolina; Huntersville, Cary, Concord and two in Raleigh.

Additional suspects in these robberies have been identified and more arrests are expected. If you know anything that may help investigators, please call the Charlotte Field Office of the FBI at 704-377-9200 or your local police department.

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