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OC bank job suspect gives up in St. Louis Maberry could be ‘I-55 Bandit’ who hit 10 banks NANCY POWELL Staff Writer
— and had “seen better days,” Fasano Jr. said. The new hotel will be a full-service, three or three-and-a-half star lodge with 101 rooms, from standard rooms to suites and efficiencies outfitted with full kitchens. There will be a gym, laundry facilities, a pool, a 50-seat breakfast buffet and a restaurant run by the hotel —“all the regular amenities,” Fasano Jr. said. The family chose La Quinta as its partner in part because of the franchise’s flexibility on the project. The group modified its standard hotel rooms to include
(Sept. 13, 2013) The teen-ager believed to have robbed Susquehanna Bank in Ocean City in July surrendered to the FBI in St. Louis, Mo., on Wednesday. But Andrew Maberry of O’Fallon, Ill., could be much more than a onetime bank robber. The tall, thin 19-yearold could be the notorious “I-55 Bandit,” who hit at least 10 banks, and attempted to rob two others, since May. Reportedly, Maberry gave himself up to the FBI shortly after the agency launched a massive publicity campaign calling for the public’s help in bringing the bandit to justice. The robber was dubbed the “I-55 Bandit,” because all of the bank robberies in the St. Louis area were along Interstate 55. Maberry is suspected of robbing the 94th Street bank in Ocean City on Wednesday, July 24. According to Maberry’s Facebook page, he grew up in Baltimore. His current profile photo, posted Aug. 16, shows him lying on a towel on a beach, and although the photo could have been taken in Ocean City, the location in not specified. In the Ocean City robbery, police thought he might have parked his vehicle in the area of West Biscayne Drive and Artic Avenue and then walked to the bank. After committing the robbery, the suspect was believed to have re-
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Demolition crews began work to clear the Ocean Voyager Motel on 32nd Street Tuesday. The project makes space for a new hotel, set to open under the La Quinta Inn & Suites name early next summer, owner Sal Fasano said.
Ocean Voyager, Pirate’s Den get wrecking ball
CLARA VAUGHN Staff Writer (Sept. 13, 2013) A project is off the ground, or on it, to raze the Ocean Voyager Motel on the block between 32nd and 33rd streets to make way for a new hotel. Demolition started Tuesday with several wings of the motel flattened by 2
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p.m. Though the project just started, it’s been on the minds of owners Sal Fasano and Sal Fasano Jr. for about three years. The demolition clears a site for a hotel to be flagged under La Quinta Inn & Suites. “It’s bittersweet because this is the hotel where I grew up working with my father, but now we’re looking forward to new things,” Fasano Jr. said. The family bought the Ocean Voyager in 1998, though the motel dated back to the 1950s or ‘60s, he said. It was a basic economy motel with standard rooms — a few beds, a refrigerator and a television
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