2 robbers clean out Fayette bank Tuesday

2 robbers clean

out Fayette bank Tuesday

Two efficient and well-armed

masked robbers cleaned out the vault at Talbot State Bank in north Fayette

County Tuesday afternoon, escaping in and then abandoning one getaway

car and exchanging it for another vehicle two blocks from the bank, Fayette

County Sheriff's Department Major Bruce Jordan said.

The employees of the bank at

the corner of Ga. highways 314 and 138, next to the Fulton County line,

were locked in the vault but let themselves out with a key, Jordan said.

No one was hurt, he said.

The two black males entered

the bank about 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, brandishing a "street sweeper"

automatic shotgun and a handgun, Jordan said. The man with the shotgun

stood near the door while the other male told a teller to take him into

the vault, Jordan said.

The two left within three minutes

in a cream-colored Cadillac, which they abandoned and set on fire two

blocks from the bank, Jordan said. Witnesses said they saw two men escaping

in a red Pontiac, Jordan said.

The amount of cash taken was

not disclosed.