BREAKING NEWS

Costa Mesa Police and the FBI are looking for a robber who held up the Citibank on Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa Monday afternoon.

The robber walked into the bank at about 1:45 p.m. and handed a teller a note demanding cash, police said. Authorities declined to say how much money the robber took.

The robber is in his mid-40s, approximately 5-feet-9 and weighs 180 pounds, according to the FBI. Costa Mesa Police said he was wearing a fisherman-type hat. It is unknown if the man had a weapon.

It was also unknown if the Citibank robber was the so-called cue-card bandit who is believed to have held up nine Orange County banks, including a Costa Mesa Citibank on Sept. 1. The cue-card bandit got the nickname for showing tellers a steno notebook with the demand for cash written on it. He is Asian or Latino, in his 40s, between 5-feet-6 and 5-feet-8 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. He is stocky, has dark hair and was unshaven the last time he was seen.

Last week, the cue card bandit showed a bank teller at the Corona del Mar Wells Fargo on the 2100 block of East Coast Highway a note demanding cash. When the teller said the bank didn’t have any cash, he left. Later Wednesday, the robber went to a Laguna Woods bank and that time made off with an undisclosed amount of cash.