GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO) — An inventive bank robber who is charged with stickups in Kalamazoo and Battle Creek is now facing federal indictment for the two heists.
In April, court documents claim 51-year-old Douglas Wolthuis of Lawton walked into the Fifth-Third branch in Oshtemo, wearing a bad wig and a surgical mask claiming he had a bomb and fleeing the scene with 60-thousand dollars.
In June, wearing a haz-mat suit, he walked into the Chase Bank on Hill Brady Road in Battle Creek, and told clerk he had anthrax in a jar and threatened to release it if they didn’t hand over the cash.
The second time they say Wolthuis got about 18-hundred dollars but was arrested soon after, touching off a biological weapons response that involved both local, state and federal experts.
It was just a protein powder.
The federal indictments charge him with two counts of bank robbery.
