PRIOR LAKE, Minn. -- An escaped convict suspected of stealing a pizza delivery car in South Dakota before robbing banks in Roseville and Richfield has been arrested.
Clint Barry Eldeen, 46, was arrested at 4 a.m. Wednesday while coming out of Little Six Casino in Prior Lake. The casino is on the grounds of Mystic Lake Casino and Eldeen was spotted by the casino's security personnel, said Lt. Randy Hofstad with the Prior Lake Police Department
Eldeen, who escaped from prison while serving sentences relating to check fraud, is being held at the Ramsey County Jail.
After escaping from the minimum security unit at the Sioux Falls, S.D., state penitentiary just before 7 p.m. Friday evening, Eldeen allegedly stole a running pizza delivery car and traveled into Minnesota, where police say he used the vehicle to assist in robbing Bremer Bank in Roseville on Sunday morning.
After police released surveillance images from the robbery and a gas station theft in Lakeville, a number of tips came in from the public, and Eldeen was identified as the suspect.
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Loven said investigators are also looking at Eldeen in connection with a robbery at a Wells Fargo location in Richfield and an attempted robbery at TCF Bank location in Richfield -- both on Tuesday.
At the time of his escape, Eldeen was serving two sentences for "no account check," according to the South Dakota Department of Corrections. The first sentence was for 30 years, with 15 years suspended. The second sentence was consecutive and for 30 years, with 25 years suspended.
He was sentenced in Lincoln County, S.D., in 2000 and his scheduled suspended sentence release date is Dec. 15, 2021.
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