Huntsville police arrest suspect in Kentucky bank robbery

HUNTSVILLE — Huntsville police arrested a man yesterday in connection with a bank robbery that occurred earlier this week in Lexington, Kentucky.

Police responded to a call at approximately 8 a.m. Nov. 14 from a citizen reporting a man possibly passed out in a vehicle in a shopping center parking lot. Upon arrival, officers found 26-year-old Maxwell Ward Hayslip, of Irondale, Alabama, asleep in a car in a parking lot at University and Paramount drives. At that time, he was arrested for drug possession, according to Lt. Michael Johnson of HPD. Those charges include possession of a controlled substance—methamphetamine, as well as possession of marijuana in the second degree.

“During the process of the arrest officers discovered possible evidence of other crimes which prompted the contact with Lexington, Kentucky authorities,” Johnson said.

After some communication between these authorities and the HPD Violent Crime Investigators, Johnson said they were able to identify Hayslip as the suspect in the Tuesday bank robbery.

According to Brenna Angel, public information officer for the Lexington Police Department, police were dispatched to Chase Bank on Nicholasville Road Tuesday afternoon in regards to a robbery. Employees told the officers that a man, now identified as Hayslip, came into the bank dressed in a gray sports coat, khaki pants and a black beanie. He handed a “threatening note” to a bank teller demanding money, and the employee complied. Angel said Hayslip then fled on foot in an “unknown direction.”

Hayslip was captured on surveillance at Chase Bank in Lexington. CONTRIBUTED

“Hayslip is also possibly connected to other bank robberies that occurred in Kentucky and Tennessee,” Angel noted.

Since his arrest in Huntsville, Hayslip is also being charged with robbery in the second degree. He is now booked in the Madison County Jail while authorities figure out his extradition procedures. He will face charges in Lexington.