The AK-47 Bandit, linked to multiple armed robberies around the country (including a Chino heist in which a police officer was shot back in 2012), was arrested this week in Nebraska. Beverly White reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Monday, June 26, 2017.
Robbery charges have been filed in Nebraska against a man suspected of being the "AK-47 bandit," who investigators believe robbed banks in five states, including California.
Court records show 39-year-old Richard Gathercole was indicted Tuesday for an August 2014 bank robbery in Nebraska City, about 50 miles south of Omaha. His attorney didn't immediately return a call Wednesday from The Associated Press.
FBI officials have been looking for years for the man they believe robbed banks in California, Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska and Washington state typically while carrying an AK-47 rifle.
Gathercole, of Montana, was arrested June 20 near Lexington, Nebraska, after a sheriff's deputy spotted a pickup truck that Kansas authorities had reported stolen by a man who fired at a state trooper.
Gathercole also faces weapons charges.
