The 'cyborg bandit' captured at Key Bank in Bellevue on Sept. 24, 2013.

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A once unidentified man with the monikers Cyborg bandit" and Elephant man has been caught, charged and identified after a year-long investigation.

King County prosecutors recently charged Anthony Leonard Hathaway, 45, of Everett on Feb. 14 with one count of robbery in the first degree.

Hathaway wasarrested by the Seattle Safe Streets Task Force on Feb. 11 after he was caught robbing a Key Bank in the University District of Seattle.

Several bank employees witnessed a man with a black umbrella run into the bank and demand $100, $50, $20 and $10 bills, according to charging documents.

Hathaway allegedly stole $2,320 from the tellers cash drawer as he dawned a dark colored mask and told everyone in the bank to get down on the floor.

Post-miranda, Hathaway later confessed to committing 29 other bank robberies throughout western Washington during the past year, charging documents state.

Several local robberies were included in his confession, which include the Bothell Whidbey Island Bank on Oct. 23, 2013 and March 29, 2013, and the Bothell Whidbey Island, North Creek branch on July 5, 2013.

Police had been watching Hathaway the day he was arrested in a year-long investigation the task force had been building since the first robbery in Everett.

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