Cameras record robber go in and out of credit union | News

GRAND RAPIDS, (WZZM) - The robber may not have known it but cameras were rolling when he walked up the street, when he went in and when he hurried out of a credit union on Plainfield Avenue in northeast Grand Rapids.

Just after 5:00 P.M. Monday the masked man held up My Personal Credit Union at 1327 Plainfield.

The Boost Mobile store across the street has a multiple camera surveillance system that recorded the robber every step of the way.

"Look at how fast he is moving now," observes Boost Mobile tech expert Joey Domina as he watches the video with a police officer. "30 seconds and he is out."

The video shows the robber walk slowly past the credit union, turn around and go inside.

Investigators say he implied he had a weapon and demanded money.

Less than a minute later he was back out and walking northbound down Plainfield Avenue.

Mat Kavaluskis says he saw the suspect out on the street before the hold up.

"I was crossing and he was walking down the street," says Kavaluskis. "We didn't speak or anything. He kept walking and didn't even look at me."

After watching the surveillance video and interviewing witnesses police say the suspect was wearing a gray hooded sweat shirt under a dark coat. He is average height, and about 190 pounds

Boost Mobile employee Claudia Zamudio thinks she has seen the suspect in the neighborhood.

"He is always covered with his hood," she says. "I told my co- worker he looked suspicious. Probably he was planning it."