The suspect, Ray Reco McNeary, 35, was disgruntled about a prior transaction, according to the chief.
Anderson said many people had already run out of the bank by the time officers arrived, but five employees were held hostage.
“I can tell you that some employees were released by the suspect, and some flat out ran for the door,” Anderson said. “The last hostage that was being held took his chance and made a run for the door.”
Anderson said that s when tactical units from the police department and FBI ran in and took the suspect into custody without incident. The chief said McNeary had asked police to call the FBI, and the federal agency was called and responded to the scene.
Peaceful resolution : Hourslong hostage situation at Wells Fargo bank in Minnesota ends with arrest, authorities say Anna Haecherl and Erik Newland, St. Cloud Times
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ST. CLOUD, Minn. After an hourslong standoff Thursday, a hostage situation at a Wells Fargo bank in Minnesota ended without any injuries and an arrest, authorities said. A peaceful resolution, the best outcome we could have today, said St. Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson said at a news conference late Thursday.
Anderson described the suspect, identified as Ray Reco McNeary, as a disgruntled customer upset about a prior transaction. The branch manager called the police, Anderson said, and a short time later police received a panic alarm from the bank.
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Derek Chauvin and Three Other Ex-Officers on Civil Rights Charges in George Floyd’s Death Adam Klasfeld
Minneapolis cops charged with killing George Floyd.
In the latest salvo by Attorney General
Merrick Garland’s emboldened U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, ex-Minneapolis Police Officer and convicted murderer
Derek Chauvin and the three other officers with him on the day
George Floyd, Jr. died in custody been hit with federal civil rights charges.
Chauvin is also charged separately with another alleged civil rights abuse involving a juvenile in 2017.
Unsealed on Friday, the first indictment states that Chauvin “willfully deprived George Floyd of the right, secured and protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States, to be free from an unreasonable seizure, which includes the right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a police officer.”