The West Wendover Police Department got the phone call at 9:24 a.m. that a robbery just happened at the West Wendover Post Office. The robber, an unidentified man (or a woman?, sounding like a man), of small build (not too tall, not too wide), wearing a black hooded sweater, with his face covered by a black scarf, entered the Post Office and demanded the cash from the cash register. He also had his right hand covered and wrapped in a plastic with the appearance of holding a gun, pointing at the clerk, to led to believe he had a weapon. The clerk handed the register over the counter, and the suspect removed the cash(an undisclosed amount) and fled on foot.
The other clerk saw him going west, running past the car wash, then lost sight. Lt. Leninger told the High Desert ADVOCATE that the WWPD took their K9 officer with them when they answered the call, and the dog was able to follow the scent for up to half a mile, but due to wet weather, lost track after that. Detective Brad Hillaker is still investigating the robbery, and talking with the United States Postal Inspector Jake D. Bingham, who came from Salt Lake City Utah to investigate.
Even if he didn’t have a weapon, or never used it, this is an armed robbery of a federal building, who when he/she is caught, will lead the robber in Federal Prison for up to 20 years. And since this robber looks and acts very similarly as the robber of the Texaco Gas Station in Wendover twice previously, February 9th and March 9th, if it can be prove it is the same person, he will have 10-20 years twice added to his federal sentence.
