{"id":18878,"date":"2019-09-28T09:13:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T15:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=60500"},"modified":"2019-09-28T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T15:13:16","slug":"rifle-craig-bank-robbery-suspect-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/rifle-craig-bank-robbery-suspect-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Rifle, Craig bank robbery suspect arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/Bank-Robbery-2-768x297.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/Bank-Robbery-2-768x297.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/Bank-Robbery-2-768x297-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><figcaption><strong>Rifle Police officers canvas the area around Bank of Colorado after a robbery Tuesday afternoon at the bank located on Railroad Avenue in Rifle.<\/strong><br \/><em>Kyle Mills\/Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A suspect in both the recent Rifle and Craig bank robberies was arrested by the FBI in Denver on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI Safe Streets Task Force arrested Rudy Anthony Cardenas, 35, in the Denver Metro area.&nbsp;An unidentified female, who was in the company of Cardenas, was also taken into custody.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cardenas is the main suspect in this week\u2019s robbery of the Bank of Colorado in Rifle and last week\u2019s bank robbery in Craig, according to Rifle Police spokesperson Robin Steffen.<\/p>\n<p>Steffen said the investigation is ongoing, and they will release more information when it is available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a coordinated effort between Rifle Police Department, Craig Police Department, the FBI, the Denver Police Department, and Arapahoe County Sheriff\u2019s Office,\u201d Steffen said.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Police were assisted with the investigation by community members, 14<sup>th<\/sup>Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office, the West Jordan, Utah Police Department,&nbsp;&nbsp;The Grand Junction Police Department, the Rifle Police Department, The Colorado Information Analysis Center and the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release from Craig Police Department a nationwide arrest warrant was obtained by the CPD on Sept. 19 for the arrest of Cardenas for the robbery that occurred at the Craig Bank of Colorado on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Police Department believe Cardenas was also involved in this robbery on Tuesday, the Bank of Colorado was robbed in Rifle, and are assisting Rifle Police Department with their investigation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Craig robbery will be referred to the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office for formal charges. The investigation continues.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rifle Police Chief Tommy Klein said the department has a detective on the way to Denver to assist in the Investigation. RPD is also working with the Ninth Judicial District for formal charges.<\/p>\n<p>The robbery in Rifle occurred in the 1200 Block of Railroad avenue just after noon Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/rifle-craig-bank-robbery-suspect-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifle Police officers canvas the area around Bank of Colorado after a robbery Tuesday afternoon at the bank located on Railroad Avenue in Rifle.Kyle Mills\/Post Independent A suspect in both the recent Rifle and Craig bank robberies was arrested by the FBI in Denver on Friday morning. The FBI Safe Streets Task Force arrested Rudy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 15:46:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}