Police arrested a 50-year-old man and his two adult children forrobbing a branch of the Houston-based, $892 million First CommunityCredit Union in Katy, Texas, in October, and authorities say thethree may also be responsible for five bank robberies in thePortland, Ore., area.
|A spokesperson for the sheriff's office in Fort Bend County,Texas said Ronald Scott Catt and his son Hayden Scott Catt, 20,are accused of walking into the First Community CU branch on CincoRanch Boulevard in Katy around 1:50 p.m. wearing orange trafficvests and dark sunglasses.
|They then allegedly held employees at gunpoint and demandedcash. Police said the older suspect wore a painter's mask and theyounger suspect had on a fake mustache.
|Ronald Catt's daughter, 18-year-old Abigail “Abby” Catt, isaccused of driving the getaway vehicle, the sheriff's officesaid.
|Police said based on the male suspects' attire, detectivesconnected them to an August robbery at a Comerica Bank branch in Harris County, Texas,during which suspects wore painter outfits with painter masks.
|Detectives also tracked the orange traffic vests worn during theFirst Community CU robbery to a nearby Home Depot, where surveillance videocaptured the three suspects purchasing the vests and a painter'smask.
|Ronald and Hayden Catt were arrested at a Katy apartment complexon Nov. 9, and Abby Catt was arrested later that day at the FortBend County Sheriff's Office. They are being held at the Fort BendCounty Jail on respective bonds of $140,000, $140,000 and$100,000.
|Detectives believe the three family members — all natives ofOregon — are connected to five Portland-area bank robberies andhave notified authorities in that state, according to the sheriff'soffice.
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