{"id":1315066,"date":"2019-09-27T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=988290"},"modified":"2019-09-27T16:18:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T22:18:36","slug":"rifle-bank-robbery-suspect-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/rifle-bank-robbery-suspect-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Rifle bank robbery suspect arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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>
Kyle Mills\/Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The FBI Safe Streets Task Force arrested Rudy Anthony Cardenas age 35, in the Denver Metro area. An unidentified female, who was in the company of Cardenas, was also taken into custody. <\/p>\n

Cardenas is the main suspect was linked to this weeks robbery of the Bank of Colorado in Rifle and last weeks bank robbery in Craig, according to Rifle Police spokesperson Robin Steffen.<\/p>\n

Steffen said the investigation is ongoing, and they will release more information when it is available.<\/p>\n

\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

Craig Police were assisted with this investigation by community members, 14th<\/sup>Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office, the West Jordon, Utah Police Department,  The Grand Junction Police Department, the Rifle Police Department, The Colorado Information Analysis Center and the FBI<\/p>\n

According to a release from Craig Police Department a nationwide arrest warrant was obtained by the CPD on September 19th<\/sup>, 2019 for the arrest of Cardenas for the robbery that occurred at the Craig Bank of Colorado on September 17th<\/sup>, 2019. <\/p>\n

Craig Police Department believe Cardenas was also involved in this robbery on the afternoon of September 24th<\/sup>, the Bank of Colorado was robbed in Rifle, and are assisting Rifle Police Department with their investigation. <\/p>\n

The Craig robbery will be referred to the 14th<\/sup>Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office for formal charges. The investigation continues. <\/p>\n

According to Rifle Police Chief Tommy Klein the Rifle Police department has a detective on the way to Denver to assist in the Investigation. RPD is also working with the 9th<\/sup>Judicial District for formal charges.<\/p>\n

The robbery in Rifle occurred in the 1200 Block of Railroad avenue just after noon Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Post Independent will release more information when available.<\/p>\n

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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 The FBI Safe Streets Task Force arrested Rudy Anthony Cardenas age 35, in the Denver Metro area. An unidentified female, who was in the company of Cardenas, was also taken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1315066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 01:24:08","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315073,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315066\/revisions\/1315073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}