ASHLAND – Two bank customers foiled an attempted bank robbery at the Huntington Bank at 308 Eastern Avenue Tuesday afternoon.
According to a press release from the Ashland Police Department, at 12:31 p.m. Tuesday, a 59-year-old Ashland man entered the bank and presented a bank employee with a note demanding money. The bank employee complied with the request and the man left the bank on foot.
Two customers recognized that a robbery had taken place and followed the man out of the bank, confronted him and subdued him until Ashland Police officers arrived.
The man was transported to University Hospital’s emergency room by the Ashland Fire Department squad. The Ashland County Sheriff’s Office and the Mansfield office of the FBI also responded.
The case remains under investigation.
