CULLMAN —
Some family traditions should be carried on.
Others? Not so much.
Like the one a William Jackson Dooley has been accused of following.
Dooley, 33, of Baileyton, was arrested by the Arab Police Department Wednesday in connection with a July 12 robbery of an Arab bank. He was charged with second-degree robbery.
Dooley is also a suspect in another attempted robbery of a Marshall County bank, which occurred on Aug. 31 in Scant City, according to officials with the Arab PD.
This isn’t the first member of the Dooley family to be arrested for bank robbery. According to the Arab Tribune, Dooley’s older brother, Timothy John Dooley, served time in prison for the 1993 robbery of First Alabama Bank in Arab and the 2003 robbery of a People’s Bank branch on U.S. 231 North.
On July 12, a man Arab PD investigators believe to be Dooley walked into the Wells Fargo on Brindlee Mountain Parkway wearing a mask and gloves and demanded money.
Arab PD investigators said the suspect left the scene with an undisclosed amount of money.
Arab Police Chief Mike Blackwood said information obtained after an Aug. 31 attempted bank robbery in Scant City helped lead to the arrest of Dooley, who investigators had already identified as a suspect in the Wells Fargo robbery.
Following the attempted robbery, a car matching the description of the one the suspect left in drove by the bank. Police stopped the car and Dooley was among those in the vehicle who were questioned.
According to Blackwood, witnesses from the Wells Fargo robbery were able to identify Dooley as a suspect while he was being questioned by police for the attempted robbery in Scant City.
Officials with Arab PD said none of the stolen money was recovered when he was taken into custody at his mother’s residence Wednesday morning.
* Justin Graves can be reached by phone at 734-2131, ext. 225 or by email at justing@cullmantimes.com.
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