GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO) — An felon who spent the last two decades in a state prison for attempted murder, has now been charged with robbing three Kalamazoo credit unions at gunpoint last year.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Grand Rapids has indicted 48-year-old Edward Bowen with 3 counts of armed robbery and three counts of using a gun during a violent crime.
They claim Bowen held up the Preferred Credit Union on S. Westnedge Avenue in Kalamazoo twice, in May and June of last year.
A month later he held up the Kellogg Community Federal Credit Union on Gull Road, forcing the staff into a janitor’s closet and raiding the vault.
They say 44-thousand of the 59-thousand dollars he stole came from that third robbery.
A grand jury handed down the indictment late last week.
Bowen was convicted of a drug count in Kalamazoo in 1996, and the attempted murder charge that same year in Genessee County.
