Bank robber’s bunker discovered in Sammamish

A joint team of investigators from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as well as local law enforcement and the Washington State Patrol, uncovered an underground bunker allegedly used by a bank robber to cache tools used for his crimes.

A joint team of investigators from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as well as local law enforcement and the Washington State Patrol, uncovered an underground bunker allegedly used by a bank robber to cache tools used for his crimes.

Bradley Steven Robinett, now 45, was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” after having spent the last five years as a fugitive.

The roughly 10-by-8-foot bunker was dug into the hillside at 3500 East Lake Sammamish Parkway SE. This was one of two bunkers located in Washington, Sgt. Peter Horvath said.

Investigators located the bunker by piecing together clues Robinett gave them.

Officers removed several totes from the bunker, which officers think had been abandoned for several years. The totes contents are unknown at this time.

Robinett was convicted of bank robbery in 2004. He was released from a federal prison in Arizona in 2009 and bussed to Seattle on the condition he report to a halfway house. Robinett never made it to Seattle.

Police encountered Robinett twice in 2009. In September 2009 he fled police during a car chase on Bainbridge Island. In November 2009, Washington State Patrol attempted to corner Robinett at a Bellevue park and ride, where the suspect rammed a patrol vehicle before fleeing the area.

He was eventually located and apprehended in Hillsboro, Oregon in June 2014. He remains in custody in Oregon.