Fbi Offers $5,000 Reward for Information about Profed Robbery

PROFED CREDIT UNION ON STELLHORN ROAD THIS MORNING BEFORE IT OPENED. NOT ONLY DID THEY GET AWAY WITH CASH... THEY TIED UP AND BEAT THE THREE EMPLOYEES WHO WERE INSIDE. NEWSCHANNEL 15'S MEGAN REUST HAS BEEN DIGGING DEEPER TO UNCOVER THE LATEST. SHE JOINS US NOW LIVE AT THE SCENE. MEGAN? HEATHER... POLICE ARE THANKFUL FOR A WITNESS WHO CALLED POLICE WHEN HE SAW THREE PEOPLE IN MASKS RUN OUT OF THIS DOOR OF THE CREDIT UNION. THEY'RE HOPEFUL WHAT HE TOLD THEM WILL HELP THEM FIND THE SUSPECTS. A MAN WAITING IN THE DRIVE THROUGH OF THE PROFED CREDIT UNION SAW PART OF THE ARMED ROBBERY UNFOLD THIS MORNING. HE CALLED POLICE AFTER HE SAW THREE PEOPLE IN MASKS RUN OUT OF THE CREDIT UNION'S BACK DOOR. RAQUEL FOSTER - FWPD SPOKESPERSON :10 "THEY ARE ARMED. THEY ARE MASKED. THEY BIND THE HANDS OF THOSE THREE EMPLOYEES THAT ARE INSIDE OF THE BANK." POLICE SAY THIS MAN DID EVERYTHING RIGHT. AN OBSERVANT WITNESS WHO WAS ABLE TO GIVE INVESTIGATORS PLENTY OF DETAILS. OFFICERS SAY THE THREE SUSPECTS HEADED SOUTH NEAR A RESIDENTIAL AREA. POLICE WANT ANYONE WHO LIVES IN THAT AREA WHO MAY HAVE SEEN SOMETHING TO CALL THEM. RAQUEL FOSTER - FWPD SPOKESPERSON :13 "WHETHER IT'S A CELL PHONE THAT HAS BEEN DROPPED, GLOVES, A MASK - OFTEN PERPETRATORS AS THEY FLEE THEY WILL BEGIN TO SHED CLOTHES SO THAT THEY DO NOT FIT ANY SUSPECT DESCRIPTION." PROFED WAS CLOSED TODAY BECAUSE OF THE ROBBERY. ONE CUSTOMER WHO HAS BEEN COMING HERE FOR 20-YEARS SAYS SHE'S DISGUSTED. DIANE HARKLESS - PROFED CUSTOMER FOR 20 YEARS :12 "PEOPLE HAVE NO RESPECT NOTHING ANYMORE AND MORALS ARE GONE WE'RE JUST FREE FOR ALL. IT'S NOT THE WAY I WAS RAISED. I WAS RAISED TO WORK HARD FOR WHATEVER YOU GET IN LIFE." POLICE AREN'T SURE HOW MUCH CASH THEY GOT AWAY WITH. THEY SAY THE THREE EMPLOYEES WERE TIED UP AND BEATEN - WHICH INVESTIGATORS SAY IS UNUSUAL. RAQUEL FOSTER - FWPD SPOKESPERSON :20 "TYPICALLY ROBBERS ARE AFTER ONE THING AND THAT'S THE FINANCIAL GAIN. IT'S VERY RARE THAT THEY INTEND TO HURT ANYONE, BUT THAT'S NOT THE CASE IN THE ONES THAT WE HAVE SEEN RECENTLY. THEY HAVE BECOME MORE BRAZEN. THEY'RE BATTERING THE EMPLOYEES OBVIOUSLY TO INTIMIDATE THEM AND TO SCARE THEM." THERE IS A $5,000 REWARD FOR ANY INFORMATION THAT LEADS TO THE ARREST OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREDIT UNION ROBBERY. MEGAN REUST, NEWSCHANNEL 15. THE MARSHALLS STORE IN SOUTHGATE PLAZA IS CLOSING.