Seen on TV -- Then Caught John S. Burnett, Associate Editor
He was featured in a September 2007 America's Most Wanted episode. He was also on the U.S. Marshals' 15-Most Wanted List, after holding up six banks in several states, and escaping from a Kentucky jail and a federal lockup.
Ultimately, informant tips spelled the end of Anthony Artrip's almost four-month-long flirtation with freedom, 25 days and 350 miles from his holdup of the First Citizens Bank in Mount Airy, NC. After a five-hour standoff at a motel in Bridgeville, PA, police and federal agents, supported by a SWAT team with tear gas, finally subdued Arstrip and arrested him on October 8, 2007.
Police expect that Artrip will be returned to Kentucky to face a long list of charges, including several federal charges of bank robbery. Artrip has been implicated in bank heists in West Virginia, South Carolina, Michigan and Georgia, in addition to the Mount Airy holdup. Before his jail escape, he was awaiting a federal trial on charges he had robbed a bank in Ohio.
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