The FBI and law enforcement agencies in North and South Carolina are trying to identify and arrest the man responsible for a series of armed bank robberies that have occurred since May.

From Staff and Wire Reports

The Virginian-Pilot - 8/24/2009

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.-- The FBI says a serial robber believed to have struck 10 banks across the South, including one in Edenton, N.C, in July, is being featured on electronic billboards.

The man is a suspect in robberies that occurred last week in Jefferson City, Tenn., and Morristown, Tenn., according to The Knoxville News Sentinel.

Other locations include Edenton, Fayetteville, Hendersonville and Fletcher, N.C.; Forest Acres, Myrtle Beach and Mount Pleasant, S.C.; and Louisville, Ky.

The billboards are located throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Georgia and Alabama.

The suspect is described as white, about 25, 5-feet-9 to 5-feet-11 and around 175 pounds. He has short, reddish-brown hair and an unshaven goatee and tattoos on both forearms. Police said he is considered armed and dangerous.

Earlier this month a reward was offered for information leading to the arrest of the man.

In each robbery, a man enters the bank without a disguise, talks with the teller, and begins shouting and threatening the employees inside the bank. He demands money and brandishes a black semiautomatic handgun.

When the employees comply with his demands, he orders them to lie on the floor and then he takes the money and flees.

Anyone with information about the identity of the robber is asked to call local police, the FBI in Columbia, S.C., at (803) 551-4200, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation at (800) 334-3000 or the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division at (866) 472-8477.

Virginian-Pilot staff writer Lauren King contributed to this story.