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FBI Arrests Alleged Armed Bank Robber

FBI New York April 20, 2011
  • FBI New York Press Office (212) 384-2100

At approximately 11:00 this morning, James Russell was arrested without incident by FBI agents from the New York Field Office and the Philadelphia Division’s Scranton Resident Agency in Harlem, New York. Russell is allegedly a member of a violent crime group and one of four who allegedly participated in an October 30, 2010 armed bank robbery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. For additional information, please call the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania at 717-221-4482.