Police make arrest in BB&T bank robbery

Albemarle County police have arrested a man they said robbed the BB&T bank in Pantops on Friday.
Joseph Carroll Breeden, 32 of Gordonsville, was found at his home and arrested early Saturday morning, police Lt. Greg Jenkins said.
“He was located at his residence, and he met us at the Police Depart-ment,” Jenkins said.

Jenkins didn’t offer too many other details. Authorities aren’t disclosing how much money was taken from the BB&T bank. Jenkins said police haven’t been able to confirm whether the suspect had a weapon at the time of the robbery.
Shortly after Friday’s robbery, police near the scene collected a black bag and faded jeans — both of which looked similar to the thief’s belongings that were spotted by one of the bank’s surveillance cameras. In addition, police found a cell phone in the pants.
Officers found the bag and jeans on a nearby hillside after Daily Progress staff members pointed them out.

Jenkins said on Friday there was “some indication that there may have been a weapon,” but added that the man didn’t show a weapon or explicitly say he had one.
The suspect, who was wearing a white surgical-style mask, work gloves and a knit cap, ran out of the bank’s front door and toward the back of the building, according to police.
Breeden is being held without bond at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.
Jenkins said investigators don’t believe that Breeden was involved in Tuesday’s robbery of the Wachovia bank near Martha Jefferson Hospital.

Police say the person who robbed the Wachovia bank was a 6-foot-tall white man wearing blue jeans, a brown pullover, a white T-shirt, a tasseled red-and-black winter knit cap and sunglasses.
Anyone with information about either robbery is asked to call Crimestoppers at 977-4000.