CVMO, SPD hunt for armed bank robbery suspect1 min read

The Camp Verde Marshal’s Office is huting for a man who committed and armed robbery at at 3:11 PM, on Thursday, Jan. 14, at Chase Bank, 402 W. Finnie Flat Road, in Camp Verde.

The suspect, described as a white male, early-to-mid 20s with dark hair, approximately 5’10”, approximately 120 pounds, entered the bank wearing a black zip-up jacket with a hood, black sunglasses, a black mask over his lower face, white gloves, light-colored pants and black tennis shoes. He brandished a black, semi-automatic pistol, possibly a 9mm, handed the clerk a camouflaged backpack and demanded money. He left the bank on foot heading north up a drainage wash, according to witnesses.

A perimeter was quickly set up by the CVMO with the assistance of the Yavapai Apache Police Department, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office, Arizona Department of Public Safety and DPS Ranger helicopter with thermal-imaging equipment and the Sedona Police Department’s K9 Unit. A 2-dollar bill was found in the field behind the bank and is being processed for DNA evidence.

CVMO is asking for help from the public in identifying the suspect. A reward is available through Silent Witness. Callers never have to give their names and rewards pay from $100 to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest.

Call (800) 932-3232.

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Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."

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