Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers shot two men to death and took a woman into custody after a suspect vehicle ran a roadblock following a bank robbery in Southeast Oklahoma.

Troopers set up the roadblock along State Highway 3 near Rattan in Pushmataha County after the 1 p.m. bank robbery in Wright City in nearby McCurtain County. Lt. George Brown, a spokesman for the patrol, said troopers spotted the suspect vehicle. The driver refused to stop and ran the roadblock.
 
Shots were fired, and two men in the fleeing vehicle were hit, troopers said. They later died from their injuries. A woman in the car was being held for questioning by the Pushmataha County sheriff’s office. She was not injured in the incident.
 
Authorities did not release the names of the suspects or the troopers involved.

Brown said the FBI, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Pushmataha County sheriff’s office and the patrol are jointly investigating the incident.
 
Brown said he does not know whether the suspects were armed or fired on troopers.

He said no troopers were injured.

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A man wanted in the robbery of a Bank of Oklahoma branch friday afternoon in Oklahoma city wrote a note demanding money after he was denied a loan.  An FBI spokesman said the branch at 2601 N Meridian was robbed about 12:10PM.  A man entered the bank and spoke to an employee about a loan.  After the employee told the man the bank doesnt offer the kind of loan he was asking for, he approached a teller with a not stating ” Give me all of your $50′s and $100′s.  Do not hit the alarm.  Do it” the fbi reports.

The robber was described as a white man, about 5 feet, 10 inches tall, with a medium build and wearing a baseball cap, dark t shirt jeans and white tennis shoes.  Officals ask anyone with information about the robbery to call the FBI at 299-0770..  If you are the person wanted for the robbery & you would like to turn yourself in contact my criminal defense law firm immediately.

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The graying balding suspect dubbed the Granddad Bandit pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to robbing two virginia banks and acknowledged other heists from New York to Texas including one close to home in Oklahoma.  michael Francis Mara, answered yes maam or no maam during a plea hearing before U.S.  magistrate judge Hannah Lauck in Richmond Virginia..  Mara will not be charged in other states.

He is believed to have robbed the Valley National Bank in Tulsa,  Authorities say Mara took more than $63,000 in the heists, starting in Richmond in 2008 and ending with a North Carolina holdup the day before his aug 11 arrest.  He was captured after a standoff and faces up to 20 years in prison for each charge, but his deal with prosecutors calls for him to spend 25 years in prison.

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