UPDATE - 7:00 p.m. A Des Moines neighborhood remained cordoned off by police cars Monday night while the bomb squad and detectives searched a house in the 600 block of Philips Street on the south side.
Police spokesman, Sergeant Paul Parizek said witness to a credit union robbery Monday say the suspect threatened he had a bomb in a bag he carried.
The suspect was arrested only a few blocks from the house on Philips Street, several blocks west of the Credit Union that was robbed hours earlier.
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DES MOINES, IOWA - Des Moines Police tracked a credit union robbery suspect Monday afternoon, chasing him first in a getaway car, and then on foot through streets and backyards in southeast Des Moines.
Des Moines Police Sergeant Paul Parizek says the Tradesman Credit Union at 2930 SE 14th was held up at 4:12pm. The suspect was arrested 8 minutes and several blocks later.
Parizek says the suspect told witnesses he had a bomb.
A portion of the 600 block of Phillip Street, a residential area several blocks west of the credit union, and not far from where the suspect was arrested, was been closed while the Des Moines Police Department Bomb Squad investigated.