Bank robber pepper sprays employees, flees on ATV

Published 7:29 pm Thursday, March 15, 2018

ORR — Authorities in northeastern Minnesota said a robber pepper sprayed two bank employees and fled on an ATV before sheriff’s deputies tracked him down.

St. Louis County sheriff’s officials said the man robbed the American Bank in Orr shortly before noon Wednesday. Deputies arrested the suspect after a witness later spotted the man on his ATV north of the community and called 911.

Authorities said the employees hit with pepper spray were treated at the hospital.

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