A 44-year-old man was charged Wednesday with robbing an Inver Grove Heights credit union of more than $20,000 while wearing a surgical mask and goggles and toting a kitty-litter bucket with a handgun inside.

Herman Wilson, of Brooklyn Park, is accused of robbing the Minnesota Building Trades Credit Union at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 8. He was arrested about seven weeks later.

A former city of Minneapolis worker has admitted to selling prescription drugs outside her office in City Hall.

Lynette Rounds, 56, of Minnetonka, pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to 180 days in jail, which was stayed for three years. Rounds' plea came in Hennepin County Drug Court.

In August, an undercover officer working with an informant met Rounds outside her office on the second floor of City Hall, according to the criminal complaint. With other officers observing them, Rounds gave the undercover officer a plastic bag with 30 Percocet pills in exchange for $165, the complaint said.

According to public records, Rounds was hired in 1986 and had been working in the property services division of the Department of Public Works making $45,125 a year. She resigned in November, one day before she was charged.

A 54-year-old Minneapolis man charged Wednesday with robbing two suburban Twin Cities banks was caught after a customer broke free from the suspect's grip and reported the heist, authorities said.

Ananias Taylor Jr. was arrested Jan. 21 at a home not far from the scene of the second holdup, a TCF branch in a St. Louis Park Cub Foods store.

Taylor also allegedly held up a TCF branch on Dec. 8 in Bloomington, stealing $2,311.

According to an FBI affidavit:

Taylor entered the St. Louis Park TCF and displayed a plastic bag and ordered that it be filled with "$50s, $20s, $10s, and no dye pack." Cash totaling $2,750 and two tracking devices were put in the bag.

Meanwhile, a customer attempted to leave the bank, prompting Wilson to grab that person's arm and say, "You are not going anywhere."

The customer pulled free, ran to the Cub store and reported the robbery.

One of the tracking devices led police to a St. Louis Park home about three blocks from the bank.

With a police dog, officers searched the garage, where they found Taylor and a handgun.

In the snow near the garage, they recovered the bag containing cash.

Taylor was immediately arrested and taken to Hennepin County Medical Center for injuries he suffered "during his dog-assisted apprehension," the U.S. attorney's office said.

PAUL WALSH