Dec 27, 2013 1 min read

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It was not a particularly good year for Community Bank in Rogersville. Twice, the financial institution was robbed, once on March 19, and the second time on Nov. 12.

In the first robbery, a person wearing a dark mask entered the bank at 3:36 p.m. and passed a note to the first teller, demanding money. No gun was displayed. The robber was given money and fled on foot across the road from the bank into a residential neighborhood. Then in November two men, one armed with a handgun and the other with a shotgun, left with an undetermined amount of money, but left behind a small box on the counter one of the robbers indicated was a bomb. The Allegheny County Bomb Squad was called and determined the package was not an explosive device.

But robberies were not limited to Community Bank in 2013. On March 3, woman entered the First National Bank of Rices Landing at 928 North Route 88 and passed a note to a teller indicating she had a gun, although no firearm was seen or displayed, and demanded money.