The Omaha Police Department have identified the four bank robbery suspects that were arrested.
They have been identified as:
- 23-year-old Freddie L. Johnson IV
- 21-year-old Steven Muldrew,
- 24-year-old Shaun Murph Jr.
- 22-year-old Marquis Warren
The four were in custody after a Friday morning chase through northwest Omaha.
The robbers crisscrossed a popular golf course with police hot on their trail.
Golfer Bruce Tuttle says he never expected his golf game to be interrupted by a police chase.
"Only my golf score is a crime," Tuttle said.
Tuttle was enjoying a quiet round of golf when a helicopter, k-9 units and police on motorcycles descended upon the Knolls Golf Course.
Police chased four suspects who robbed the U.S. Bank near 132nd and Maple at gunpoint minutes earlier, at about 8:50 p.m.
Golfer Skip Wolff says he's glad police acted swiftly.
"That's not something you anticipate,” Wolff said. “It's something that happens, I guess. That's life. On a golf course, anything can happen. Today proved it.”
While Omaha police were quick to chase the four suspects in a vehicle, then on-foot, Cpt. Marcia West says they were lucky to have state troopers and Douglas County deputies in the area at the time.
The suspects scattered in four different directions on the golf course, West said.
"It wasn't just a simple thing to just block off the streets like you would expect,” West said, especially in the residential neighborhood with all the fences and stuff, too, a lot of places to hide."
After calling it a day at Knolls, Wolff says he has an interesting story to tell.
"I’ll just tell (my wife) that I was in the middle of a dragnet, a police dragnet, and I wasn't the one they were looking for.”
Omaha police are not saying whether Friday’s robbery and Thursday’s robbery at Great Western Bank, near 156th and Dodge, are related.
Police credit tracking technology with helping catch the suspects.
