Bank Robber on FBI’s Most Wanted List Is Arrested in Lake Tahoe Area
A man on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List was arrested on Wednesday at Lake Tahoe, the FBI said.
Robert Litchfield, an escaped prisoner and convicted bank robber, was arrested along with his wife, Donna, shortly after noon outside a home in an exclusive lakeside area.
Litchfield escaped from federal prison in Talladega, Ala., in February, 1986, and has been on the run since, according to Bill Dempsey of the U.S. marshal’s office. He was serving a 60-year sentence.
Dempsey said Litchfield is believed to have robbed banks in Detroit, Atlanta and Florida and was recently added to the Most Wanted List.
Dempsey said Litchfield apparently had been in the Lake Tahoe area only a few days. He and his wife offered no resistance when arrested.
They were taken by car to the Federal Building in Reno and were expected to be transferred to the Sparks City Jail near Reno where federal prisoners are held.
Litchfield was known as the “Block House Bandit” and was convicted of 15 bank robberies in the Florida area from 1983 to 1985. He earned his nickname because most of the robberies were at drive-in windows of banks that had separate facilities.
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