Date | February 10, 1997 |
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Location | Seafirst Bank, Lakewood, Washington, U.S. |
Perpetrator | Trenchcoat Robbers |
Outcome | Cash robbery of $4,461,681 |
47°15′10″N 122°26′20″W / 47.25278°N 122.43889°W
On February 10, 1997, the Seafirst Bank branch of Lakewood, Washington, was robbed of $4,461,681 in cash by Billy Kirkpatrick and Ray Bowman, also known as the Trenchcoat Robbers. An investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service caught the two, and they were both sent to 15 years in prison in 1999. It is one of the largest robberies in U.S. history.