{"id":33144,"date":"2021-11-21T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T13:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theburn.com\/?p=33144"},"modified":"2021-11-22T14:30:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T19:30:33","slug":"police-checking-for-link-between-sunday-manhunt-and-friday-bank-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theburn.com\/2021\/11\/21\/police-checking-for-link-between-sunday-manhunt-and-friday-bank-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Police checking for link between Sunday manhunt and Friday bank robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"
(UPDATED<\/em>) Two men are in custody after an overnight car chase through three counties and a manhunt in Purcellville Sunday morning that put a local college campus on lockdown. Now, detectives are trying to determine if the two men are related to a Friday bank robbery in Leesburg.<\/p>\n According to the LCSO, what initially began as a domestic dispute of some sort near Winchester in Frederick County, Virginia turned into a police pursuit through Clarke County and into Loudoun County.<\/p>\n Clarke County police reported seeing the vehicle exit Route 7 in the Purcellville area and a short while later, Loudoun deputies found the vehicle on the campus of Patrick Henry College, which is located in Purcellville. The vehicle was empty and the college was put on a temporary lockdown.<\/p>\n Purcellville police joined Loudoun Sheriff’s deputies in a search of the area, as did the Fairfax County Police Department offers who flew their helicopter in circles over the area, looking for the suspects.<\/p>\n Mid-morning Sunday, the LCSO announced that the two men \u2014 Kenneth Sencindiver, 65, \u00a0and Kenneth Sencindiver II, 24, were in custody.<\/p>\n There has been much online speculation that the elder Sencindiver resembles the suspect in a Friday bank robbery at the M&T Bank on East Market Street in Leesburg.<\/p>\n A Leesburg Police Department spokesman confirmed the agency’s investigators are working with the Sheriff’s Office to determine if there is any connection.<\/p>\n