Eagan Police Seek Robbery Suspect Known Only by DNA

Police in Eagan have issued a nationwide arrest warrant for a robbery suspect whom they know only by his DNA profile.

The warrant, issued Tuesday, charges the unknown suspect with first-degree aggravated robbery in connection with the March 2009 robbery of the City & County Credit Union in Eagan.

The criminal complaint lists the suspect’s DNA profile. He was described at the time as a black male, approximately 6-foot-1, weighing 180 pounds, in his mid-20s, wearing a blue denim jacket over a black shirt, a black stocking cap, baggy blue jeans and light-brown boots.

The suspect obscured the lower part of his face with black fabric, a black glove on his right hand and a disposable surgical glove on his left hand. The FBI disseminated photos taken with the credit union’s security camera at the time of the robbery.

According to the criminal complaint, Eagan police were called to a robbery in progress at the credit union just after 10:30 a.m. on March 2, 2009. The dispatcher received a holdup alarm and a 911 call from credit union employees, along with a description of the suspect.

A teller told police that the suspect didn’t threaten her, but told her to give him money and pointed a black automatic handgun at her. When she apparently didn’t move quickly enough, he jumped over the teller counter, grabbed the money out of the cash drawer, jumped back over the counter and fled on foot, heading west on Washington Avenue behind a strip mall.

Police spoke to a cook at a restaurant in the strip mall, who said he saw a black man running past, carrying a black bag. The cook said he saw the man take off his jacket and throw it on the ground, along with the black bag, then continue running across Federal Drive and into the parking lot of an apartment complex.

Police brought a canine officer to the area, and the dog tracked the suspect’s scent from his discarded jacket. Police found a glove and the suspect’s face covering beside a garage at the apartment complex.

The man’s discarded clothing was sent to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, where forensic scientists were able to put together a DNA profile using the glove.

Anyone with information on the suspect’s identity or whereabouts is asked to contact police or the FBI.