From Art Campos:
Authorities say a man arrested for allegedly robbing a bank in Roseville (above photo) is being investigated for four other bank robberies in the Sacramento region and in Fairfield.
Scott Stewart Singewald, 41, who was arrested Friday at a hotel in Roseville, will be arraigned today in Placer Superior Court on suspicion of robbing the River City Bank in Roseville on June 11.
The FBI believes Singewald may be the person it dubbed as the "Stuffed Shirt Bandit" for a series of bank robberies that began Sept 1 with the heist of a Bank of America in Fairfield. He was given that nickname because he stuffed money in his shirt after robberies, authorities said.
Subsequent robberies attributed to the Stuffed Shirt Bandit occurred on May 3 at the Bank of the West in Woodland, June 20 at the Bank of the West on El Camino Avenue in Sacramento and June 23 at a Wells Fargo Bank in Lincoln, according to the FBI.
A tipster who saw a photo of the wanted man gave Roseville police a description of Singewald's car, and officers found it parked at a hotel on Lead Hill Boulevard. The suspect was later arrested when he came outside to enter the car.
The series of robberies is being investigated by the Sacramento Violent Crimes Task Force, which is composed of FBI agents and detectives from Sacramento-area law enforcement agencies.
Singewald is being held in the Placer County jail in Auburn on $750,000 bail.
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