Renovo Bank Robbery Case: Winkelman Returned to Clinton County; New Charge Filed
LOCK HAVEN — Josh Winkelman, 25, wanted by local authorities in connection with an October bank robbery in Renovo, was extradited to Clinton County over the past weekend, returned by the county sheriff’s department to face charges.
Winkelman had been in police custody in Georgia, apprehended in May when found sleeping in a truck in the restaurant district of Richmond Hill, an affluent community near Savannah.
In a new development, it turns out the truck Winkelman was in was not his truck. State police today reported that the truck, a 2008 Dodge Ram 1500, had been stolen sometime between May 20 and May 23 from its owner, Brian Mills of North Bend, brother of Renovo area district judge Frank Mills. Winkelman was arraigned before district judge Joseph Sanders on the truck theft charge, bail set at $10,000. He was returned to the Clinton County Correctional Facility where he has been since his extradition from Georgia.
It was on May 2 that a state police drug strike force descended on Winkelman’s 5th Street home in Renovo only to find that he had fled. Authorities had been on the lookout since that time and subsequently issued a release terming him “armed and dangerous.” It had been believed he was hiding out in the Summerson Mountain area of Chapman Township. He was subsequently taken into custody in Georgia; he faces charges there related to his alleged attempt to avoid arrest.
