Updated 03/09/2012 04:39 PM
"Snub-Nose" Bandit Leaves Six-Month Trail Of Crime Across Brooklyn, Queens
To view our videos, you need to
enable JavaScript. Learn how.
install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now.
Then come back here and refresh the page.
The New York City Police Department and FBI searched Friday for an armed robber who has become increasingly violent.
The suspect, dubbed by investigators the "Snub-Nose Bandit" because his weapon of choice is a silver, snub-nose revolver, is connected to at least six incidents in Brooklyn and Queens dating back to September.
He mostly targets banks, but in his first robbery he held up a Dunkin Donuts in Greenpoint, firing one round into a tray of donuts as he demanded cash from the register.
The following month he hit a Capital One bank in Brooklyn at gunpoint.
In December, he held up an HSBC bank in Queens, where police say he also fired a shot but did not hit anyone.
During January he struck a Sovereign bank in Jackson Heights and a Chase bank on Hillside Avenue in Queens.
In his most recent robbery on March 2 at an Apple Bank on Flushing Avenue in Williamsburg, police say he shoved a woman away from the teller's window before demanding cash.
The FBI say the robber uses livery cabs as a getaway car.
Police describe the suspect as about 35 years old, 5-feet-5-inches to 5-feet-7-inches tall and between 150 to 190 pounds.
The FBI is offering a "significant" reward for information in the case. Tipsters can reach the FBI at 1-212-384-1000.
Anyone with information on the case can also contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS, or text CRIMES and then enter TIP577, or visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com.