Man charged in city bank robbery spree

A 42-year-old man has been charged with going on a bank robbery spree in downtown Baltimore yesterday morning -- holding up two downtown banks and trying to rob a third within a span of three hours, a city police spokesman said today.

Lamont E. Brown of the 300 block of E. Lanvale St. was charged with three counts of bank robbery and is being held in the Baltimore City Detention Center.

Sterling Clifford, a police spokesman, said an officer monitoring live surveillance camera feed saw the suspect walking along downtown Commerce Street late yesterday afternoon, matched his picture with one taken at a bank and radioed officers to make the arrest.