'Hipster Bandit' caught after credit union robbery, police say
PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland police officers nabbed the so-called “Hipster Bandit” as he fled on bike from a credit union robbery in Northeast Portland last week, according to police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson.
On Friday, Dec. 7 officers got a call about a robbery at the Consolidated Community Credit Union at NE Sandy Blvd and 20th Avenue.
Witnesses in the credit union told police the suspect passed a note demanding money and made away with cash, Simpson said. Witnesses were also able to provide a detailed description of the suspect.
As officers searched the neighborhood, they noticed a man about dozen blocks away who matched the description and was riding away from the credit union on a bike.
Officers caught up with the man, identified as 40-year-old Harvie Dale Oglesby III, and arrested him. Simpson said officers found evidence from the robbery on Oglesby.
Detectives think he is the same suspect from four other robberies in the Portland area, including one where a witness said the suspect “looked like a hipster.” Investigators coined him the “Hipster Bandit”
According to police, Oglesby is a suspect in these other robberies:
- July 19, 2012, at the U.S. Bank, located at 7300 Southwest Terwilliger Boulevard.
- August 31, 2012, at the Albina Community Bank, located at 5636 Northeast Sandy Boulevard.
- October 19, 2012, at the Key Bank, located at 3839 Northeast Broadway.
- November 26, 2012 at the Key Bank, located at 3515 Southwest Troy Street.
Oglesby is being held in the Multnomah County Jail on federal bank robbery charges.
I know this guy, I went to high school and we hung out. This is not him to do something like this. Hes actually a very, very talented artist. I pray they have mercy on him
How many bank robberies in Portland during 2012?
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How many robbers fled on a bicycle?
Why do felons have to have cute names? A robber is a robber, pure and simple. He/she doesn't need a nickname, just a jail cell ASAP!
Only name this guy? needs is "Jailhouse Freak". Probably couldn't peddal his bike fast enough because his "skinny jeans" were chafing!
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If this guy was really a hipster, he wouldn't have been robbing a non-profit credit union.
 @UtterReality That subtlety(sp) was most likely lost on him.
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Oglesby's sonnet:
"My life, is like a prison, corralled beneath a concrete dome.
The earth below and the sky above my only true companions.
Some day, I hope, to escape my own destiny."
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Ogleby's celly's refrain:
"Fool, shut the hell up. You ARE in prison... 'cuz you robbed banks!"
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obviously turned in his man card a looooonnnng time ago
Nothing about that guy looks like a hipster.
you might be a hipster if...it takes you an hour to put your pants on.
@Phuzz most of the hipsters I know where programmers, system administrators, network admins and web developers making $50,000+ before they were 30 whether they graduated from college or not, while the angry white man on the radio ( not eminem) was scolding young Americans for expecting to make $50,000 right out of college. One of my hipster friends, for example, was an original employee at Hotmail and is putting his hipster wife through veterinarian school because he was smart enough to reinvest his earnings. My hipster drummer in my hipster band owns two houses in Portland and 40 acres of property in central Washington. I'm a professional pilot who plays music on the weekends so I'm probably a hipster too. Except, I don't know if hipsters are allowed to carry guns. I may have to relinquish my Hipster badge but you'll take my flannel sweater when you pry it from my cold dead body.
I don't see what makes him look like a hipster
@pdxd in Portland rock music circles he would be called an emo-f*g, "emo" being the actual derogatory part.
 @Playanekes  @pdxd Spot on analysis!  Damn, I feel old as I type it, but I remember when this town had some badass bands playing around...
 @IH77  @pdxd Heather's retiring from the Ash Street Saloon. Might be the end of days. Floater's still around and I saw Thresher play earlier this year, but, yeah. Time was...
He'll probably get 10 years in a federal lockup for maybe $10-!5 K. What an idiot.
Whoa, that guy is 40? Would have guessed about 16.
 @kindercaregoat I thought so too!
Well! At least he didn't rob any banks the whole September. He also won't rob for awhile. Good news?
If I were his facebook friends, I would hurry up and unfriend, that's all I can say.
Maybe he can take a shower in jail and wash his hair.
The Hipster bandit was last seen wearing a Pea-Coat, a Scarf, 70's style Bi-focal glasses, An ugly christmas sweater, A beanie that only covers the top of his forehead so his hair still hangs out, skinny jeans, converse all sta...wait, I'm leaving Converse All Stars out of this.
 @paulelijah God Bless You, and Chuck Taylor.
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Wow, was that a misnomer. "Hipster Bandit"??? Â Nope.Â
@KKStJohn Now all the Hipsters can get back to their dog parks and not worry if there is a theif among them
I wonder if there is a  Harvie Oglesby the Fourth.
Is 'hipster' a synonym for 'unwashed'?Gross pig.
Only in Portland do we get "the Hipster Bandit"....I hate hipsters....sucking all the manhood out of this place,
@deejm2112 yeah... North Portland was better when it was overrun by Crips and Bloods squatting in property belonging to Californian investors who kept the values down so the taxes wouldn't be as high. Then, one day, all these HIPSTERS showed up, opening coffee shops and restaurants and music halls, bike shops, clothing stores... Buying up houses, fixing them, increasing the property values, paying taxes on them. I mean, the police don't even refer to the Safeway on MLK as "Little Beirut" anymore. There goes the neighborhood. The LAST thing you want in your community is young upwardly-mobile job-having tax payers who can afford to spend more per week on coffee than a Deadhead spends per week on weed, because boarded up windows, squatters and gang violence are better.
Apparently his fixed gear bicycle wasn't fast enough to elude police officers...
 @stephcra reminds me of a song from ol' Freddie:
 I want to ride my bicycle
 I want to ride my bike
 I want to ride my bicycle
 I want to ride it where I like
 You say black I say white
You say bark I say bite
 You say shark I say hey man Jaws was never my scene