Possible robbery avoided at a local Bank of America

Alert employees at the Bank of America on College Road may have foiled a robbery Thursday afternoon.

Police said a man who went into the bank, looked strikingly similar to the man who robbed two other local Bank of America’s in the last two weeks, and he looks like the man who robbed the BB&T on Market Street in September.

Employees engaged the man in conversation while police were called, but he left before they arrived. He never threatened a robbery.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Paul Verzaal at the Wilmington Police Department at 343-3921.