Man charged in bank heist that evacuated grocery store

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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) _ A man has been charged with threatening to have explosives with him while robbing a Columbia bank in a heist evacuating the grocery store in which the bank is located.The Columbia Missourian reports 59-year-old Jeffrey Alan York is charged with robbery and making a terrorist threat. The probable cause statement says he told a teller in a note that he had a gun and explosives in his backpack during Friday’s robbery at a Commerce Bank branch that’s in a Hy-Vee grocery store. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

The statement says he got into a car afterward. He’s then accused of exiting
the vehicle and leaving the backpack behind when customers began photographing
him. Police found him near the store with the cash.

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