The Cottonwood Police Department is searching for a man who robbed a Cottonwood bank Tuesday, Feb. 11, who may also have robbed a Camp Verde bank on Feb. 4.
CPD officers arrived at the Cottonwood branch of Bank of America, 611 S. Main St. after a robbery alarm was activated at 9:35 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
CPD Detective Del Munday said the robbery involved a male, thought to be in his mid-50s with graying hair, mustache, sunglasses and a dark colored hoodie possibly pulled over a hat. The suspect is believed to be approximately 190 pounds and was wearing gloves during the course of the incident. No weapons were mentioned or displayed.
For the full story, see the Wednesday, Feb. 12, edition of the Cottonwood Journal Extra.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet." In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
