Staff writer

sbeveridge@observer-reporter.com

The FBI believes the armed man who robbed a Donora bank Monday also held up one last month in Westmoreland County.

On Monday, the white man walked into a PNC branch on McKean Avenue wearing a hat and sunglasses and made off with an undisclosed amount of money.

A teller asked him to remove the disguise just before he flashed a handgun in a canvas bag and demanded money, FBI spokesman Bill Crawley said.

"He said, 'Don't move,'" Crawley said.

There were no customers in the bank at the time. The robber may have fled the area in a white Chevy van.

He matched the description of a man who robbed a National City branch March 6, about 10 miles east of Donora in Smithton.

The suspect is 45 to 50, 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighs about 180 pounds.

He had a mustache during the Smithton robbery and was wearing a winter coat and hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled over a baseball cap. He also was wearing jeans, gloves, white sneakers and sunglasses.

During the Donora robbery, he was wearing a jacket over a sweatshirt with a hood.

Anyone with information is urged to call the FBI's Mon Valley office at 724-483-3122.

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