Police search for three men after bank robbery in East Pikeland

Photo from video at the Wells Fargo Bank on Schuylkill Road in East Pikeland 

 EAST PIKELAND — Police are searching for three men who robbed the Wells Fargo Bank Tuesday morning.

Police said the mask-wearing men entered the bank at 200 Schuylkill Road around 11 a.m., each armed with a handgun.

The men, according to police, ordered employees and customers to get on the ground before jumping the counter and taking money from the teller windows.

Police did not say how much money was taken.

No one in the bank was injured, police said.

Despite the marked police cars in front of the bank, more than 10 customers tried to enter through the locked front doors.

One man even banged his fists against the glass trying to get the investigators attention.

Police said the Chester County Detectives and surrounding police departments responded to the scene.

The bank remained closed on Tuesday and police said it will likely reopen for regular business on Wednesday.

Crime mapping: An introduction

In conjunction with stories from print, the crime blog will feature information from Crime Mapping. We will use the graphs of crimes committed, an interactive map as well as tracking crime trends paired with interviews with police.

The interactive map feature for the blog is still being developed, but this screen shot is an example of what will be seen once the map is running. 

Each crime category has its own symbol which is used on the map. The website allows for crimes to searched by category and by date. 

The information is provided to the website by the Pottstown Police Department. After the data is plotted on the virtual map, the website generates graphs that are available and free to the public. 

Here are examples of the graphs provided by www.crimemapping.com for crimes committed in October 2013 around the borough: 

The pie chart generated by www.crimemapping.com shows what percentage each crime category was out of the 286 total crimes. 

Another graph created by www.crimemapping.com sections off how many of each type of crime was committed on each day of the week. 

If a crime did not occur, it does not get factored into the graphs for the selected time period.