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FBI captures bank robber "Billy-Goat Bandit" in Mississippi
11:26 AM CDT on Thursday, July 3, 2008
JACKSON, Miss. -- The FBI has captured a bank robbery suspect known as the "Billy-Goat Bandit."
Agents say 48-year-old Gary Clayton Walker of Eight Mile, Alabama is suspected of robbing the Whitney Bank in Biloxi and possibly other banks along the Gulf Coast.
Agents from the Mobile Division Violent Crimes Task Force received the information from Biloxi on Walkers' location and he was arrested at his home on Tuesday without incident.
The FBI described Walker as an "unkept" white male, with a goatee.
Agents suspect he was also involved in the following bank robberies:
People's Bank in Gautier, on March 7.
Central Progressive Bank in Slidell, Louisiana, on March 12, where he was believed to have left in a white pickup truck.
Beach Community Bank in Fort Walton Beach Florida, on May 9.
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