FBI Media Release
Special Agent in Charge Manuel E. Mora
660 Mesa Hills Drive    El Paso, TX 79912 
To: All print and broadcast media
Contact:  Special Agent Andrea Simmons, 915.832.5373

February 12, 2007
           

Bank Robber Arrested in Mexico

GLEN ALAN SWANSON was arrested Sunday, February 11, 2007, for El Paso’s first bank robbery of 2007, according to FBI Special Agent in Charge Manuel E. Mora.

Swanson, of Puyallup, Washington, was located in Juarez, Mexico, on Sunday. He was detained by the Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI) and turned over to Mexican immigration officials. He was released Sunday night to the FBI with the assistance of Customs and Border Protection and booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility.

Swanson was arrested on one charge of federal bank robbery for the January 27, 2007, robbery of the Chase Bank branch at 135 Shadow Mountain, El Paso, Texas. This investigation was worked jointly by the FBI and the El Paso Police Department.