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Fire Marshal Jeffrey Strang offered deputies an assist in apprehending local resident Xavier Roberts, 43, who was busted after a failed bank robbery attempt in Cosner's Corner, officials say.
According to a spokesperson from the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office, at around 1 p.m., Roberts walked into Atlantic Union Bank in the 10100 block of Patriot Highway, passed one of the tellers a note demanding money, and displayed a knife, though his plan was for naught and he left on foot without any cash.
Deputies were contacted and canvassed the area for the bank robber; however it was the Fire Marshal, who was in the area, that spotted Roberts and helped deputies take him into custody.
Roberts, a Spotsylvania resident, was arrested and charged with entering a bank armed with the. intent to commit larceny. He was held at the Rappahannock Regional Jail without bond.
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