A Venango County man who has been targeted by the Department of Justice in a series of fake anthrax letters sent to abortion clinics across the country also is a suspect in a West Virginia bank robbery.
An arrest warrant was issued Friday for Clayton Lee Waagner, 45, in connection with the Nov. 9 armed robbery at a BB&T Bank branch in Morgantown, U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Johnston said.
Waagner, of Kennerdell, has been a fugitive since February, when he escaped from a jail in Clinton, Ill., where he was awaiting sentencing on federal firearms and auto theft convictions.
Johnston said investigators determined Waagner spent the night before the bank robbery at a Morgantown hotel, and he is the only person for which an arrest warrant has been issued.
No one was hurt during the robbery, Johnston said. Six bank employees picked Waagner out of a photo lineup.
On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft called Waagner - a self-proclaimed "anti-abortion warrior" - a prime suspect in the anthrax hoaxes.
Waagner has been on the FBI's Most Wanted List since September.
More than 280 letters - containing white powder with the threat of being anthrax - were mailed to women's reproductive-health clinics throughout the East Coast during the second week of October.
One of six western Pennsylvania threats was received at Planned Parenthood, Downtown.
The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to Waagner's capture.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
