From Kim Minugh
The Roseville Police Department today thanked the Sacramento Sheriff's Department and other agencies for capturing a bank robbery suspect on Wednesday.
The suspect was taken into custody after a roughly three-hour standoff with officers from three law enforcement agencies at the Tradewinds Motel on Auburn Boulevard according to authorities.
The 52-year-old man had been barricaded in his room since about 12:30 p.m. Sacramento County Sheriff's Sgt. Tim Curran identified the suspect as Steven Kenneth Holmes (see photo) of Sacramento.
Curran said the incident began with a bank robbery on Douglas Boulevard in Roseville shortly after 10 a.m.
A man entered the bank and produced a note demanding money. No weapon was seen, Curran said.
When he left the bank, he was seen getting into the driver's seat of a cab. Roseville detectives contacted the cab company, who identified one of their drivers that fit the description provided by witnesses, Curran said.
Authorities traced the suspect to the Tradewinds Motel. As detectives were in the motel's office shortly after noon, they saw the suspect come out of a room, Curran said. They tried to make contact with the suspect, who ran back into his room and barricaded himself inside.
Roseville police contacted the Sheriff's Department for assistance, which provided deputies, K9 officers, the helicopter (in the air today for required training) and the SWAT team. Roseville police and officers from the Twin Rivers Unified School District police force also are on scene.
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