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'Floppy Hat Bandit' Facing More Charges In Robbery Spree

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A man dubbed "the floppy hat bandit" is now in the Allegheny County Jail, facing additional charges.

Police say Ann's Market on Webster Avenue in the Hill District was one of three city businesses that 30-year-old Fredrick Pryor, of Carrick, is accused of holding up last Thursday.

According to authorities, the suspect acted alone while holding up the female clerk at gunpoint, and then running around the corner to his parked car.

But Pryor's luck as an alleged serial robber was about to run out.

Police already had Pryor's home on Minooka Street under surveillance in their ongoing investigation into a string of recent business robberies around the city. They were waiting for him when he drove back to his house.

Right now, Pryor is facing charges in a dozen city robberies, including, one at a Beauty Supply business on Penn Avenue where he had a partner, as well as a small convenience store near Children's Hospital in Lawrenceville, a state store in Greenfield and a Radio Shack on Wharton Street.

He's now facing two additional robbery charges which may be filed as early as Thursday. That brings the total to 14 robberies in the City of Pittsburgh.

Often, investigators say he acted alone, but on occasion, he worked with an accomplice.

Why Pryor had a partner and then went solo is not clear. The motive for the robberies is also unclear.

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Sources say Pryor is considered a prime suspect in robberies outside the city from Aliquippa to Edgewood, Swissvale and Duquesne.

When all is said and done, Pryor may face as many as two dozen robbery-related charges involving crimes in the City of Pittsburgh and the suburbs.

Pryor is being held in jail on $150,000 bail.

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