Family: Man at work, not robbing banks

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - An Albuquerque man remains the FBI's prime suspect in a series of Phoenix bank robberies despite his claim to an iron-clad and electronic alibi.

The FBI arrested Chris Evans at his Albuquerque home earlier this month calling him the "Blue Collar Bandit" who has held up at least seven banks in Arizona. That bandit terrorized tellers in the late summer pointing guns at them and getting away with a load of loot.

An anonymous caller named Evans, who recently lived in Arizona, as the Blue Collar Bandit. Kristin McKinney, Evans' fiancée, was there was the FBI swarmed the house.

"Five other police officers, not in uniform or anything, came out, and they had their guns drawn yelling at Chris telling him to put his hands up and that he was under arrest," McKinney said. "You just, I guess, can never prepare yourself for something like this.

"This is a nightmare."

But Evans is denying he is the Blue Collar Bandit, and his boss and co-workers said there's proof he didn't do it.   According to Evans he was at work as shown in his time cards.

But those aren't just any time cards. They are electronic records produced by a biometric machine that scans the user's hand to identify 95 points that show the correct person is clocking in.

Evans' time sheets shows he was working every day the banks were robbed in Arizona, his boss, Rick Crawford, said.

"The records don't lie," Crawford told KRQE News 13. "He was here."

The FBI has not yet interviewed Crawford but did say it will look at the information collected by the family's private investigator.

In the meantime, Evans is being extradited to Arizona to face the federal charges and may not be home for Christmas like his family wants.

"The kids are horribly upset about it," McKinney said choking back tears. "They're crying.

"They just want their dad home."