An Inglis man who was wanted in connection with a bank robbery in Ocala last week was arrested at his home in Citrus County on Wednesday.
Jason Earl Hill, 52, was taken into custody and charged with robbing the Harbor Community Bank at 8290 SW College Road last Friday. One of the clerks who was robbed positively identified Hill as the man who carried out the crime at the bank.
According to a Marion County Sheriff’s Office release, Hill was seen leaving the bank in what appeared to be a 2005-2007 green Saturn Vue. Detectives conducted a search for a vehicle matching that description in Marion and surrounding counties and discovered a 2006 Saturn Vue registered to a Jason Hill in Citrus County.
Upon looking at his driver’s license photo, detectives noticed that Hill strongly resembled the suspect seen in the bank’s surveillance video. Detectives made contact with Hill at his home in Citrus County and he agreed to do an interview with them.
Hill would not admit to robbing the bank robbery, but he told detectives how he would have done it. Hill also told detectives that he had spent time in federal prison for committing several bank robberies in the past. Upon review of his criminal history, it was found that Hill was charged with three counts of bank robbery in New Mexico in 1997 and was released from federal prison in 2014.
Hill is being held at the Citrus County Jail with no bond.
The sheriff’s office also had sought information about the robbery on its Facebook page and had posted photos taken during the crime.