Police charged a man in the Monday robbery of a Homestead bank and are still looking for his alleged getaway driver.
Thomas Hetrick, 50, told police he first tried to rob the First Commonwealth Bank on Carson Street in the South Side after getting the idea from other robberies there, according to a criminal complaint.
"I saw it on the news,” he said, “all these guys robbing this bank and getting away."
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Hetrick walked in the bank with a knife in is sleeve, but left when he saw a security guard, he told police, according to the complaint. The guard told police he followed Hetrick outside and tried to detain him, but got cut. Hetrick fled into a waiting car that drove off, he said.
The car was driven, police say, by a woman named Brittney Goodwine, who is still at large. Hetrick told police he agreed to give Goodwine $5,000 if she drove him to the South Side bank, according to the complaint.
After that aborted robbery, Goodwine drove to the Waterfront in Homestead, where Hetrick then allegedly robbed another First Commonwealth Bank branch.
Allegheny County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Hetrick on Tuesday on outstanding warrants for unrelated charges, although authorities already suspected him in the bank robberies. He was allegedly in possession of $6,925 at the time of the arrest.