Police officers were dispatched earlier this week to Maryland to intervene in a bank robbery, where they found themselves confronted with a suspect holding a stolen kitten in his arms.
The Prince George’s County Police Department announced in a statement that its officers arrested a man suspected of stealing a cat and then going to a bank in Beltsville, northeast of Washington, D.C., where he allegedly attempted to commit a robbery, according to Global News.
“The suspect was in possession of a stolen cat, and the cat was returned,” said the press release, without however indicating where the feline had been stolen or to whom it had been returned. »
Authorities said no injuries were reported. The identity of the suspect has not been released as the incident remains under investigation.
According to a publication on the Facebook account of Beltsville Community Catsa local cat shelter, the animal is currently in its care.
The shelter says the suspect, described as a man, “walked across the parking lot to a nearby PNC Bank branch and attempted to use it as a prop during his attempted robbery.”
“He asked the branch manager to hold the kitten while he wrote a note, then handed the note to a cashier demanding all the money,” the post read.
“Fortunately, the robbery failed,” concludes the shelter’s press release. “The suspect was arrested, and Magnolia was found safe and sound in the agency director’s office, where the two had bonded through their shared ordeal. »
