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Listen Up! FBI Arrests 'All Ears Bandit' in Los Angeles
Surveillance footage from the March 12th robbery
If you have large ears and rob banks, it's only fitting your FBI nickname will be the "All Ears Bandit." However, today the Bureau is announcing the arrest of a man they believe is the large-eared perp. 25-year-old Stepan Dovlatyan was taken into custody at his home in Los Angeles on August 1st, says the Department of Justice, and after appearing in court Tuesday, posted $20,000 bail. Dovlatyan faces charges for bank robbery and attempted bank robbery.
Dovlatyan is accused of robbing a bank in Bell Gardens on March 12, 2011, and for the attempted robberies of a Carson bank on March 14, 2011 and in Echo Park on March 19, 2011. Authorities are working to determine if he can be linked to any other robberies.
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