Hudson bank robber
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Has anyone else heard about this crazy shit?!?!?!?
http://www.twincities.com/ci_7342189?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1
I didnt know till after this week he was the owner of alfreds auto body in west fargo.....
A 53-year-old North Dakota auto sales lot owner is the man police say robbed a Hudson bank before committing suicide in a Stillwater hospital parking lot Wednesday.
Hudson police detectives Shawn Pettee and Jeff Knopps went to Fargo and West Fargo, where they received search warrants Thursday for Alfred Josiah Knodle's home and business.
After the search warrants were executed Thursday, they notified his family of his death.
Stillwater police recovered identification, including a business card in the suspected bank robber's car Wednesday, but waited to contact family to ensure doing so wouldn't jeopardize evidence or their investigation. They say he is also the suspect in the robbery of another Hudson bank last week.
Why Knodle picked the Hudson banks, more than 260 miles from his North Dakota home, is still being pieced together. He is the operator of Alfred's Autobody and Sales in West Fargo.
Bank robbers who travel so far from home are rare, Minneapolis-based FBI Special Agent Paul McCabe said Thursday.
"We don't see that very often. There is a very low percentage coming from a different state," he said. "They tend to come from the area, and often from that section of the metro area."
In a similar case of an out-of-state bank robber, a rural northwest Iowa businessman and city council member's secret life of robbing suburban Twin Cities banks came to an end in 2002 when Daniel Huseman crashed while being pursued by officers.
Knodle is
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believed to have entered Citizens Bank Oct. 26 at about 9:45 a.m., demanded money from the clerks, and left with an undisclosed amount of cash in a dark Buick sedan. The Coulee Road bank is one block from the Interstate 94 westbound entrance ramp and Knodle is believed to have taken that route in escaping.Police say he returned to Hudson Wednesday about 10 a.m., but this time hit Associated Bank on Second Street, which is Hudson's main street and about four blocks from another I-94 entrance ramp.
While he was able to get out of Hudson, dispatchers had already alerted neighboring jurisdictions to watch for a white Ford Mustang, which was then sighted by an Oak Park Height Police officer at 10:10 a.m. He shot himself to death about five minutes later.
The latest robbery was the seventh in Hudson this year, and the sixth since August. With the exception of Associated Bank, and Speedy Cash, about 100 yards away, all of the robberies have been on or near Coulee Road, which has easy access to I-94.
Kevin Harter can be reached at [email protected] or 651-228-2149.
"tell the misses that thats how you got the man and thats how you KEEP the man
words to live by from the wise one"
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need a username and password to see that site. maybe a copy/paste
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i was just about to paste that up for ya. yeah thats nuts
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really? Also faber he didnt "own a dealership" it was a auto body shop. I believe he bought wrecked vehicles and fixed them i might be mistaken....
"tell the misses that thats how you got the man and thats how you KEEP the man
words to live by from the wise one"
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itRfan;193829 wrote:
really?yeah, although they've confirmed it now off the surveillance footage..
Fargo Forum wrote:
Late Fargo man eyed in Fergus Falls heist
The Forum
Published Wednesday, November 07, 2007
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. – Authorities were investigating on Tuesday whether a man suspected of robbing two banks in Wisconsin before killing himself may also have robbed a bank in western Minnesota.Alfred Knodle, 53, shot himself to death in a parking lot in Stillwater last week as authorities closed in on him after a bank robbery in nearby Hudson, Wis.
Police in Fergus Falls were investigating whether Knodle may have robbed the Bank of the West branch bank on the west side of Fergus Falls in January 2006.
Police Lt. Kyle Bergren said photographs from the Wisconsin bank robbery show a suspect with a similar disguise, stocking cap and glasses as the Fergus Falls bank robber.
Knodle lived in Fargo and owned Alfred’s Auto Body and Sales in West Fargo.
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what was weird is that he ran in a buick century but then gets cornered in a mustang gt in still water minnesota? I just woulda kept going and not switched cars..though now that i think about it, it was smart to switch. But he got caught anyways
"tell the misses that thats how you got the man and thats how you KEEP the man
words to live by from the wise one"
-weshole
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