A federal grand jury accused a California man in a series of local bank robberies as well as using a bomb threat in an attempted heist, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Denver said today.
Scott Shawn Kosterow, 38, of Long Beach, Calif., is accused of phoning a Target store in Sheridan on Jan. 19 and saying he would detonate a bomb if the store did not give him $10,000, according to federal prosecutors.
He did not get any money in that attempt, but the next day Kosterow showed up in person to rob a Key Bank in Broomfield, according to the indictment.
He was pulled over and arrested by a Douglas County Sheriff’s sergeant on Jan. 28 after he allegedly robbed a Colorado State Bank and Trust in Highlands Ranch, where investigators found unspecified evidence that linked him to the two other cases, according to prosecutors.
