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Report: 'Plaid Shirt Robber' arrested in Mo.

August 28, 2008 @ 02:07 PM

2008/The Herald-Dispatch

Herald-Dispatch.com

SPRINGFIELD, Mo — A Missouri newspaper is reporting that a man suspected to be the “Plaid Shirt Robber” has been arrested by the Missouri Highway Patrol.

The Springfield News-Leader out of Sprinfield, Mo., reported that  Joseph Paul Young, 37, of Rogersville, Mo., was stopped for driving too slow on Interstate 44 at 8 a.m. this morning, the Missouri Highway Patrol says.

Young was charged on Aug. 20 for robbing two banks in Charleston, W.Va. He also has a warrant in Lexington, Ky., in connection with a New Year’s Eve bank robbery, the report said.

Following the Charleston crime, police and the FBI circulated a vehicle description and pictures of the suspect after a bank robbery there on Aug. 19, the report said.

Based on tips, authorities were able to link Young with a truck used in the Charleston robbery, and later caught up with him near his Christian County home, the report said. He fled when they tried to apprehend him.

Agents nicknamed the suspect the “Plaid Shirt Robber” after the flannel shirts he wore during many of the heists, according to the report.