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5 Arrested in Failed Robbery Plot

HENDERSON, Nv -- Henderson police officers and the FBI have arrested five men after a failed bank robbery.

Police say the men attempted to rob the Wells Fargo Bank on Sunset Road and Stephanie Street. The men entered the bank, showed a fake search warrant to the bank manager and demanded all the money from the vault.

"While inside the bank, they presented the bank manager with what looked like to be a federal search warrant that demanded that the bank's money seized," said FBI Special Agent Joseph Dickey.

The manager refused and was subsequently handcuffed by the suspects and led out of the bank.

Once outside, the manager explained the process of opening to the vault to the suspects and they allowed him back in the bank. The manager explained that he had to call his security manager in order to open the vault. He was allowed to make the phone call and the security manager alerted police.

"This is unique. I've talked to a lot of agents who have been here a lot of years, never heard of anybody concocting a fake federal search warrant attempting to get money from a bank," said Agent Dickey.

Henderson officers arrested the men as they left the bank. The FBI has since taken over the case.

The five men arrested -- 39-year-old Eric Griffin of Henderson; 25-year-old Jonathan Miranda-Brewster of Orange County, Calif.; 24-year-old Jonathan Gray of Buena Park, Calif.; 24-year-old Brady Beach of El Toro, Calif.; and 30-year-old Ryan Williams of Fullerton, Calif. -- have been charged with bank robbery and appeared in federal court at 3:00 p.m. Monday.