A 21-year-old man suspected of being the mastermind in a string of bank robberies in El Paso County earlier this year has been picked up in Reno, Nev., Colorado Springs police said this afternoon.
Local investigators got a tip on Wesley Harrison Dunmire’s whereabouts, and authorities in Nevada arrested him Friday after a short foot chase about two blocks from the house where he was staying.
Reno police found a loaded gun in his car, according to a story in the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Dunmire is being held at the Washoe County Jail awaiting extradition to Colorado.
A Colorado Springs resident, Dunmire is characterized as the ring leader of a group that committed five bank robberies in Colorado Springs between Feb. 28 and May 6.
Three alleged accomplices were arrested shortly after the May 6 robbery: Kameo Jackson, 19; Corey Elenga, 24; and Shawn Sample, 19.
In addition to aggravated robbery charges in connection with the bank holdups, Dunmire was wanted on a charge of felony escape. He never returned to a halfway house after the May 6 robbery.
He was serving the rest of his sentence there after receiving five years in prison in 2009 on a burglary conviction. He had been released from the Sterling Correctional Facility to the Cheyenne Mountain Re-entry Center program in Colorado Springs a few months earlier, according to the Colorado Department of Corrections.
Dunmire has previous arrests in Colorado Springs on charges of burglary and theft, records show.
