Police Catch Paoli TD Bank Robber, Identified as Former Newtown Square Resident

PAOLI–Willistown Police have charged a 31-year-old man for the of a TD Bank in Paoli. Kim Quoc Nguyen, a former Newtown Square resident before moving to Malvern, was arrested overnight Thursday and arraigned before Judge Chester Darlington Friday morning.

Nguyen is accused of handing a bank teller a demand note threatening to detonate a bomb unless he was given money. He allegedly made off with $2,760. He is charged with robbery, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, simple assault, reckless endangerment and terroristic threats.

Judge Darlington set cash bail of $750,000, and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for Jan. 11.

During the arraignment, Nguyen said he was a 1998 graduate of . He said he lived with his parents in Newtown Square before moving to his current address in the AVE apartments off Lancaster Avenue in Willistown.

The vehicle in surveillance photos, later identified as a gold Toyota Avalon, was one clue that led police to Nguyen, according to Det. Jeff Heim of the Willistown Police Department.

"It was an exhaustive team effort," Willistown Det. Stephen Jones said, citing the contributions made by patrol officers in the department. "Just plain old good police work."

Nguyen, shackled at the hands and feet, was calm and polite in the courtroom, repeatedly addressing the judge as "sir." He indicated that he worked as a contracting analyst with Bank of America until two weeks ago.

According to court records, Nguyen faced forgery charges in 2002, and theft and identity theft charges in 2009.