QUEENS — Police are looking for a man they said robbed more than $4,000 from a pair of Queens banks in a little more than a month.
The suspect first struck a Capital One Bank at 146-21 Jamaica Ave. in downtown Jamaica on July 21 shortly after 5 p.m., slipping a note to the teller demanding cash, authorities said.
The teller complied and the man fled the bank with approximately $3,700, police said.
The thief hit another Capital One Bank, this time at 107-18 71st Ave. in Forest Hills, on Aug. 28 at around 3 p.m., authorities said.
In that incident, the man once again passed a note to the teller demanding cash, before snatching approximately $474 and fleeing on foot toward Queens Boulevard, officials said.
The same Forest Hills branch was also hit on July 21 by another robber, who police said was arrested three days later and charged with robbery.
It was not clear why this particular Forest Hills bank was targeted twice within several weeks, since there are at least four other banks nearby, according to the 112th Precinct.
On Tuesday, police released a surveillance photo of the suspect in the two robberies, describing him as approximately 45 to 50 years old and last seen wearing a blue collar long-sleeve shirt, blue jeans, a white baseball hat with an orange logo and eyeglasses.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
