A 14-year-old boy was arrested by Cobb County police Wednesday after allegedly breaking into a Wells Fargo bank in the wee hours of the morning.
Cobb police spokesman Mike Bowman told the AJC that officers initially went to the bank on South Cobb Drive near Pat Mell Road shortly after 2 a.m. after motion-sensing alarms went off and the bank’s security office spotted someone inside on camera.
The responding officers also saw movement inside, set up a perimeter around the bank and called in the SWAT team. The bomb squad’s robot was also called in to help check out the building.
Officers later spotted the teen climbing out a back window of the bank -- "the same way he went in," Bowman said.
The boy, whose name was not released because of his age, was arrested and charged with burglary. He was taken to the Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center, Bowman said.
Bowman said shortly after 5 a.m. that SWAT officers had entered the bank and were in the process of clearing the building to make sure no one else was in the building. The SWAT team found the bank empty, he said.
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