Police seek suspect in first bank robbery of 2021; pair nabbed for heists last fall
Grand Rapids had five bank robberies in 2020; defendants arrested in two of the holdups are repeat offenders facing 20 years in federal prison.
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(Top) Photo in Jan. 4 bank robbery; Dennis Burger (L) and Kimathi Smith (R) convicted in 2020 robberies.
Author: John Hogan
Updated: 5:24 PM EST January 5, 2021
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — As Grand Rapids police search for a suspect in the city’s first bank robbery of 2021, two men responsible for separate heists last fall are facing 20 years for robberies that may seem hardly worth the effort.