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"Buckeye Bandit" Indicted On Additional Bank Robbery Charges

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published December 16, 2016 at 5:02 AM EST
Franklin County Sheriff's Office

A Franklin County grand jury has indicted the man authorities have dubbed the "Buckeye Bandit" on seven additional bank robbery charges.  Ikechi Emeaghara  is suspected in up to 30 bank robberies in central Ohio over the past three years.  He is now charged in eight of those heists.
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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