RODERICK WILBERT

The Little Rock Police Department has announced the arrest of Roderick Shawn Wilbert, 42 , of Little Rock in two bank robberies this week. He’d been identified in surveillance camera video.

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He’s a suspect in a robbery Monday afternoon of the U.S. Bank branch at 10720 N. Rodney Parham Road. A warrant had been issued for him at that robbery when he allegedly robbed Summit Bank at 1800 N. Taylor on Wednesday afternoon.

Early Thursday, acting on a tip, officers arrest Wilbert at the Walmart parking lot on Bowman Road. He was charged and jailed.

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