'Most Wanted' Bank robbery suspect arrested
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Updated: 4:26 PM Sep 13, 2009
'Most Wanted' Bank robbery suspect arrested
A man suspected of committing bank robberies in five states has been captured in mid-Missouri after someone recognized him from the television show America's Most Wanted.
Posted: 3:24 PM Sep 13, 2009
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KINGDOM CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A man suspected of committing bank robberies in five states has been captured in mid-Missouri after someone recognized him from the television show America's Most Wanted.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a news release Sunday that Chad E. Schaffner was arrested Saturday at a motel in the small town of Kingdom City, which is about 25 miles east of Columbia.

The 37-year-old Indianapolis man was wanted on felony warrants for bank robbery, burglary, armed robbery and receiving stolen property. He also is a suspect in bank robberies in Illinois, Kentucky, North and South Carolina and Tennessee.

The release says Schaffner was taken into custody without resistance.

He was named a suspect in the robberies after bank surveillance photos from holdups dating to May were flashed on electronic billboards across the South.

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