RINGGOLD, Ga. – The GBI bomb squad blew up a “suspicious device” left in Capital Bank in Ringgold after a robbery and said it wasn’t a bomb.
A Florida man, William Charles Allen, has been charged with bank robbery, Georgia authorities said.
Mr. Allen, whose age was given as early 30s, was captured after a high-speed chase on Interstate 75 after the bank was robbed about 9 a.m. today.
All the money was recovered, authorities said.
The robber left behind what Ringgold Police Chief Charles Land called “a suspicious device taped to a cell phone.”
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation used a robot to enter the bank and bring the device outside, where bomb squad technicians detonated it.