Interstate 270 Temporarily Closed While Police Chase Bank Robbers

Interstate 270 was temporarily closed Tuesday as police from Montgomery County chased down three men suspected of robbing a Wells Fargo bank.

Police received a call at about 10:02 a.m. about the robbery, and 1st District officers and Rockville City Police officers responded to the bank located at 404 King Farm Boulevard, according to a release from the Montgomery County Police Department.

Two men had entered the bank armed with handguns and demanded money, took the cash then fled. The two suspects entered a silver Kia SUV, in which a third suspect was sitting, and fled from the bank, police said.

With the assistance of Prince George’s County Police Department’s Air 1 helicopter, officers located the vehicle traveling on southbound Interstate 270.  With the assistance of Maryland State Police, southbound 270 was shut down in order to stop the suspect vehicle, police said.  The SUV was located and stopped just south of Tuckerman Lane, and the suspects were taken into custody.

Northbound lanes were also closed for a brief time.

Police said they recovered a handgun used in the robbery. The stolen money was recovered from a dump truck that had been traveling adjacent to the suspect vehicle.  Investigators determined that the suspects had attempted to throw the money into the dump truck once they realized that the police had located their vehicle, according to the news release.