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FAIRBANKS -- North Pole police are searching for a woman who held bank employees at gunpoint this morning, but did not demand any money from them.

The incident occurred around 11:15 a.m. at the North Pole branch of Key Bank.

The woman, a white female who appears to be in her 40s, brandished a silver revolver and ordered the two employees to the floor at gunpoint. She did not demand any cash.

“It doesn’t look she was trying to rob the bank,” North Pole police Chief Paul Lindhag said. “It looks like she had another agenda.”

Lindhag refused to elaborate on what that agenda may have been.

By the time police arrived at the bank, the woman had already fled the scene. It appears she left in a vehicle, but police did not get a good description of it.

At the time of the incident, the woman was wearing a red sweatshirt, red gloves and blue pants.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call North Pole police at 488-6902, Alaska State Troopers at 451-5100 or Fairbanks police at 459-6500.

Contact staff writer Chris Freiberg at 459-7545.
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