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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (12934)	8/9/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

**OT** Young bank robbers very sophisticated, police say OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Police were searching for four young bank robbers - one possibly as young as 12 - who displayed the kind of cool usually expected from hardened pros. The armed heist at Anchor Savings Bank in Olympia lasted just 53 seconds - with the ringleader calling out the time in five-second intervals. Tellers said the ringleader was "obviously a young teen-ager because his voice was squeaking like he was going through puberty," Olympia police Detective Russ Geis said Thursday. The July 31 holdup was one of the most sophisticated ever in the Washington state capital, 60 miles south of Seattle. Three boys and a girl, or possibly two boys and two girls, coolly walked into the bank and demanded money from tellers. Geis said a fifth youngster may have stood lookout. Witnesses and police say the youths were disguised in hooded sweatshirts and dark stocking caps, with bandannas covering their faces. They were armed with a .357-caliber Magnum and a .22-caliber revolver. The robbers ordered the 13 people in the bank to the ground. Two armed boys circled the floor, watching the room, while the other two youths vaulted the counter and grabbed an undisclosed amount of cash. As the gang left the bank, one boy calmly thanked the tellers and customers. "I've never seen anything like that in my 19 years here. They basically took over the bank," Geis said. "It's much scarier with their age because young teen-agers with their guns, who knows what could set them off? That's what gets us worried." Witnesses outside the bank said the robbers raced up a hill and disappeared into nearby woods. Officers recovered two handguns in the woods and found discarded sweatshirts, bandannas and stocking caps. Just before the young robbers entered the bank, a couple driving by saw one of them pulling a red bandanna over his face. The same couple made a U-turn just in time to see the youths emerge from the bank. "They were high-fiving each other," Geis said. "They obviously thought they had gotten away with it."