At approximately 8:20 a.m. on Wednesday, January 16, 2019, Largo Police responded to the Bank of America (BoA) located at 12046 Indian Rocks Road.
Police say that 36 year-old Ronald Joseph
Massey attempted to enter the Bank of America which does not open until 9 a.m.
He was wearing a mask on his face when he tried to open the locked front door. Employees inside the bank witnessed him outside. The suspect rode away on a bicycle as officers responded.
At 9:06 am, the BB&T bank at 14141 Walsingham Road, a quarter mile south of the BoA, called LPD to report a bank robbery. The suspect description was the same, except Massey was armed with a knife when he entered the lobby. The tellers were behind safety glass and vacated their area to call the police, leaving Massey empty-handed. He again pedaled away.
Massey actually went back to the first bank where Officer Jason Misner was still on-scene inside the BoA investigating the original suspicious incident, when Massey, masked and carrying the knife, entered the BoA to try to rob the bank again. Ofc. Misner confronted the suspect and took him into custody without incident.
Massey has now been charged with Armed Robbery, Attempted Armed Robbery, and Violation of Probation for Armed Robbery.
Massey was just released from the Florida Department of Corrections on January 10, 2019 on prior convictions for robbing two other Largo banks. He was incarcerated since September 2013.
(Massey is not the same suspect who robbed both the Largo and Clearwater Wells Fargo banks.)
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