Maine, N.H. police seek bank robbery suspects

PARSONSFIELD – Authorities from Maine and New Hampshire were searching Thursday afternoon for two men suspected of robbing a bank earlier in the day.

Between 25 and 30 officers were focusing their efforts around Freedom, N.H., according to Steve McCausland of the Maine Public Safety Department.

Two men with a shotgun robbed the Bangor Savings Bank in Parsonsfield of an undisclosed amount of cash around 10:30 a.m., McCausland said. No one was injured. Parsonsfield is in rural western York County on the New Hampshire border.

Police in Freedom, N.H., stopped a pickup truck a short time later, but the men fled into the woods, leaving behind the shotgun, he said.

McCausland said the men apparently stole a car from Portland in recent days and left it by the bank before fleeing in a truck stolen from a water district office.