Police in DeLand, Florida, are searching for an individual who robbed a bank wearing a mask depicting the iconic Sega video game character.
While Punxsutawney Phil was making his Groundhog Day weather prediction, authorities in Florida had their own creature problems after a man wearing a Sonic the Hedgehog mask attempted to rob a bank.
post. Officers were dispatched to the credit union and spoke to witnesses who said the suspect was wearing a mask in the likeness of the blue anthropomorphic hedgehog who is at the center of the Sega video game franchise. "While demanding cash from the teller, the suspect then struck the teller's window with the hammer as he continued with his demands," the police said in the statement.
Police responded to the robbery, but the suspect, clad in the mask of the supersonic hedgehog, was too fast.Police
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