Laredo Morning Times
LAREDO, Texas -- A bank robbery at the IBC at Wal-Mart South Saturday night ended with the suspects shooting a police car, then racing to El Portal where they escaped into the brush along the Rio Grand and swam to the Mexican shore carrying bags of cash.Tow trucks pulled out a dark-colored Toyota Tundra out of the river late Saturday while a Border Patrol helicopter, Webb County Sheriff’s deputies, Texas Rangers, and other law enforcement officials oversaw the scene. When the car was pulled out it was surrounded by law enforcement officers in full protective gear.
Police say at least two men with high powered-weapons robbed the IBC bank inside Wal-Mart, in the 4400 block of U.S. 83, taking several thousand dollars, and shot at a Laredo Police crusiser during a high-speed chase, without injuring the officer.
Posted by tyne at March 19, 2007