Tucson customers of the failed First National Bank of Arizona weren’t panicking Saturday.
The bank’s East Side branch lobby was closed Saturday, as it usually is, but there was a Tucson Police Department cruiser parked out front with an officer and an Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation official inside the lobby. The bank also has a branch at 10195 N. Oracle Road.
Robert Brown — an FDIC senior ombudsman specialist on hand at the bank’s East Side branch to sooth customers possibly concerned about the failure — said he didn’t have much to do.
When Renee Hall of Ventura, Calif., pulled up to the ATM at First National’s 6298 E. Grant Road branch early Saturday afternoon she was surprised to be asked about her concerns. She said she hadn’t heard about the bank failure and was just there to deposit a check.
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“Is my check good?” she asked.
Brown, who had come out from the lobby exuding calm like a funeral director, told Hall that Mutual of Omaha Bank bought the First National Bank of Arizona and that all accounts and deposits were safe. Hall seemed satisfied, made a deposit at the ATM, and left.
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