Robbers tie up 2 Inver Grove Heights bank employees, flee with cash

They fled in a vehicle with its license plates covered, police said.

December 22, 2022 at 9:55PM
Surveillance images from a bank robbery Thursday in Inver Grove Heights. (Inver Grove Heights police/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Robbers tied up two employees at an Inver Grove Heights bank late Thursday morning and fled with cash, officials said.

The holdup occurred about 10:55 a.m. at Vermillion State Bank in the 2900 block of 80th Street, police said.

Officers arrived to find that two employees had been restrained with zip ties, police said. The suspects fled in a Buick LeSabre that had its license plates covered at the time.

Anyone with information about the heist is encouraged to call police at 651-450-2530.

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