Glasgow police are investigating a robbery that took place just after 10 a.m. Thursday morning at the South Central Bank on Happy Valley Road.

Details linking today's incident to last week's 31-E branch robbery are being examined.

Similar to the description of last week's perpetrator, police say the man involved in Thursday's robbery is a white male with reddish hair in his early to mid-20s, wearing a white ball cap. Thursday's perpetrator was also wearing a yellow button up shirt, khaki pants, and sunglasses.

"We were standing around here when a deputy sheriff come up and said a bank had been robbed," Glasgow barber Bobby Druen recalls. "We thought he was just kidding."

At one Happy Valley road strip mall, news tends to spread quickly.

"Oh, you better believe it," says area resident Zeba Thomas. "Probably within five minutes at the most when the bank was robbed, everybody up here knew about it."

Word didn't have to travel far. The strip mall's just yards from the second South Central Bank to be robbed in two weeks.

"A lot of them seems to think it's the same guy done both of them," Bobby says. "Got away with it the first time, try it again."

"Same description of the guy that robbed the other one a few days ago," adds area resident Billy Jackson. "Red hair, freckles."

Though it's not known if this is the same perpetrator in both robberies, residents say, two robberies in two weeks is unheard of in Glasgow.

"In bigger cities, it's something people deal with every day, but here we don't," says area mother of two, Kaneca Neal. "When something happens, it affects everyone cause we are a small town."

"I deliver papers all hours of the night," explains resident Elizabeth Huddleston. "I'm more alert when something like this is going on than normal."

Now, these residents say they're waiting for when news of local robberies is no longer part of their daily gossip.

"Just catch him," says Billy. "That's all we know. Just catch him."

If you have information on either the Happy Valley road robbery or last week's robbery on 31-E, please call the Glasgow Police Department at 270-651-5151.