FREEPORT

Freeport police are still searching for the suspect in an armed robbery that occurred at 2:59 p.m. on Friday at KeyBank on Main Street.

The suspect is described as a 6-foot tall black male with a slender build. According to a press release issued by Freeport Police Department on Friday, the man entered the bank at 135 Main St., brandished a semi-auto handgun and demanded money.

The suspect fled the bank and in a silver sport utility vehicle with an undisclosed amount of money.

The silver SUV was reported stolen in Portland earlier Friday and was later found abandoned in Yarmouth where it was processed for evidence by the Portland Police Department, assisted by Maine State Police and Yarmouth and Cumberland police departments.

Detectives from the Brunswick Police Department also searched the bank for evidence.

The Portland Police Department is investigating two armed robberies that occurred Friday in the Baxter Boulevard area, according to a department release. The first took place around 1:45 p.m. in the parking lot of Hannaford’s on Forest Avenue. A man reported that while sitting in his car he was approached by a subject with a handgun who demanded his phone. The suspect eventually fled on foot without the phone.

About one hour later, a subject approached a woman in her car in the parking lot of 850 Baxter Blvd. at the Seaside Nursing Home. He pointed a handgun at the driver and ordered her out of the car. She fled on foot and the perpetrator stole her car.

The stolen car was the silver 2004 Honda Pilot later located in Yarmouth.

In both cases, the suspect is described as a black male, about 20 years old, 5-foot, 10- inches tall and wearing dark color clothing and having afro-style hair, according to police.

Freeport police said the incidents continue to be investigated by the police departments involved.

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