March 24, 2010 - John Francis Pikus, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the FBI in Albany, New York, today announced a new website that will help in investigating and solving bank robberies in Upstate New York and in Vermont.
The website, www.bandittrackernortheast.com, features color photos and descriptions of bank robbers throughout 32 Upstate New York State counties and the 14 counties in Vermont covered by the FBI’s Albany Division. People can now go to one website to see all the bank robbers who are being sought within these counties. The site features a map of where the crimes occurred.
Albany FBI’s SAC Pikus said, “We are pleased to be associated with this website and expect it to be beneficial in assisting law enforcement in their efforts to solve bank robberies.”
Other FBI offices have launched similar BanditTracker sites in Arkansas, Chicago, Georgia, Indiana, Texas, and St. Louis with great success.
The sites receive exposure on more than a dozen Internet search engines. As a result, BanditTracker has visitors from 132 different countries and more than 7,892 different cities. To date, BanditTracker sites have received more than 300,000 visits with suspect photos displayed more than 10 million times.
The first of the BanditTracker sites was designed in 2007 by the FBI, the North Texas Crime Commission and Electronic Tracking Systems (ETS). ETS specializes in tracking and location and works closely with law enforcement, financial institutions and businesses to capture bank robbers and other felony offenders. The use of BanditTracker is free to law enforcement agencies. Rick Battelle, the North Central Regional Managing Director for ETS said, “We are very pleased that the ETS-facilitated Community Coalition, consisting of financial institutions, law enforcement agencies and our company, can provide the unique support offered by the BanditTracker site to aid our law enforcement partners in Upstate New York and Vermont.”
The website will feature bank robbery fugitives from Upstate New York, the Syracuse area, and the many other counties covered by the Albany FBI in New York State and Vermont. Together with its law enforcement partners, the FBI’s Albany Division has successfully prosecuted a number of subjects for bank robbery and has solved a number of serial bank robberies. This is due in large part to the excellent working relationship between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies working together and sharing information. With participation in the bandittrackernortheast.com website, the FBI seeks to further this cooperative effort by adding the public as partners in solving bank robberies.
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