Bank robber ties up four employees at Somerville bank
By Elizabeth Ratto, Globe Correspondent
A lone gunman succeeded in overpowering four employees at the East Cambridge Savings Bank on Highland Avenue this evening, tying them up and getting away with an undetermined amount of money, Somerville police said.
Police responded at about 5:50 p.m. to a robbery report at the bank and learned that a masked gunman had entered at closing time and ordered the employees in the bank into the basement, where they were tied up.
No one was injured but the suspect escaped with the money and one of the employee's cars, a gray, 2007 Infiniti G35 coupe, with the license plate number 21MC99.
Authorities are asking that anyone with information about the car. or who may have been in the vicinity of the bank today and observed anything suspicious, contact Somerville Police or the FBI Robbery Task Force.
