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News Next Door: Coopersburg Home Surrounded, Alleged Bank Robber Inside

According to a breaking news alert from police, police units from Bucks and Lehigh counties have converged at a Coopersburg home in a residential neighborhood after bank robbery suspect flees inside

UPDATE 10pm

WFMZ is reporting that a SWAT team has arrived on the scene. The male suspect allegedly robbed the TD Bank in Quakertown around 8:30 this evening with a handgun. 

Early scanner reports said the suspect was a white male with a fake blond beard wearing a skullcap and a shirt with a Panthers logo. 

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UPDATE: 9:30 p.m.

Upper Saucon Patch readers report that police have surrounded the home at 4163 Farimount St. in Coopersburg. Some readers report police using a bullhorn to draw the alleged bank robber out of the home he entered earlier this evening. 

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ORIGINAL STORY

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According to a breaking news alert, police from multiple counties have converged on a Coopersburg residence after a bank robbery suspect fled inside. 

According to the alert, police believe that a white male matching the description of a Quakertown bank robber fled from a dark-colored Cadillac into a home at 4163 Fairmount St. in Coopersburg. Police from Bucks and Lehigh counties have surrounded the home. 

Upper Saucon Patch will bring you more on this story as it develops. 

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