The Baton Rouge Police Department has arrested a suspect in the Capital One bank robbery that occurred at 1:54 p.m. Tuesday on Highland Road near the north gates of the University, according to Sgt. Don Stone, BRPD spokesman.
Twenty-one-year-old Brendan Coughenour of 4733 Y. A. Tittle Avenue was charged with armed robbery and booked at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on Tuesday, according to a BRPD news release.
Stone said security cameras provided an image of Coughenour’s car.
“We started riding in the LSU area, thinking he may be a local,” he said. “We located [the car] in the Tigerland area.”
The suspect entered the bank carrying a handgun and demanded money from the teller before fleeing on foot, according to a BRPD news release.
Witnesses described the robber as six feet tall, wearing black pants, a black hooded sweatshirt with the word “Nike” and black loafers, according to Tuesday’s release.
Stone said BRPD does not know if Coughenour is a University student.
 
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