Photo: Todd Cannady in action
Originally published as a Banning Police Department Facebook post –
“On February 16, 2021, at approximately 9:11 AM, Officers from the Banning Police Department were dispatched to the US Bank, located at 300 South Highland Springs Avenue, in the City of Banning, County of Riverside, for a call of a bank robbery that had just occurred.
Officers arrived on scene and established a perimeter around the location. Officers entered the location and searched the interior of the bank and discovered the suspect fled the location prior to police arrival. During this investigation it was discovered that the suspect entered the bank alone after it opened and brandished a handgun and demanded money from one of the tellers, who complied with the suspect’s demands.
The suspect then left the bank via the south/front entry doors and fled west on foot from the location. The suspect is described as a white or Hispanic male adult, approximately 6’1” to 6’3”, wearing a camo ball cap with the letters “USMC” on the front and dark sunglasses and a black hooded mask. The suspect was also wearing a gray or beige button-down shirt and sweatpants with the letters “ECKO” in white, down the right pant leg.
The suspect was carrying a multi-colored duffle bag. The weapon used by the suspect is described as possibly a black pistol.
UPDATE:
On July 1, 2021, Banning Police Detectives received information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that an armed take over bank robbery had taken place at a CHASE Bank, located in the City of Jurupa, County of Riverside.
After the robbery, the suspect fled the location and was involved in a brief vehicle pursuit with Riverside County Sheriff’s Department before he was taken into custody by Deputies.
The suspect, who was later identified as Todd Cannady, a resident of Palm Springs, matched the physical description and had several similarities to the suspect in several other bank robberies that occurred in southern California over the past several months. This included a bank robbery that occurred in the City of Banning at the US Bank in February of 2021.
Based on the information obtained, Banning Police Detectives served a search warrant at Cannady’s residence with the assistance of the Riverside County Gang Task Force (GTF). As a result of the search warrant, detectives found a large sum of money, firearms and other evidence linking Cannady to several bank robberies.
Todd Cannady was subsequently booked into Riverside County Jail for bank robbery and is awaiting court proceedings.
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