article_snippet: Police in North Carolina have spent the past three months searching for an elderly Caucasian bank robber, but instead found a 28-year-old African-American suspect with a penchant for disguise.
article_snippet: Police say Constant, who is black, wore a lifelike mask during the heist that made him look like an elderly white man.
article_snippet: Constant's disguise was recovered from a van that was found in Maryland a week after the robbery .
article_snippet: Surveillance video from inside a North Carolina bank showed a white man in dark sunglasses, a baseball cap and blue gloves pointing a handgun at a bank teller with one hand while holding a bag for the cash in the other.
article_snippet: CCTV cameras captured images of the same silver van with a Delaware registration near the targeted bank and the YMCA, which officials later tracked down to Maryland about a week after the robbery.
article_snippet: Inside, police found a lifelike mask resembling the bank robber and the striped bag seen in the surveillance footage, according to WSOC-TV.
article_snippet: The 28-year-old man bolted out of the car and tried to flee on foot but was quickly apprehended in a residential neighborhood.
article_snippet: The suspected bank robber is currently awaiting extradition to North Carolina to face charges in connection to the December heist.
highlights_snippet: Police say Constant, who is African-American, wore a lifelike mask during the robbery that made him look like a Caucasian man .
  