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Woman Robs Bank Using ... Spaghetti Sauce: Cops

She said jars were a bomb

(Newser) - Bank tellers thought a female robber was armed with a bomb Saturday, but it was actually just spaghetti sauce, police say. The woman, about 60, put a bag on the counter at a Michigan Fifth Third Bank, said it contained a bomb, and demanded money. "It did look like... More »

Old Man Robs Bank So He Can Go Back to Prison: FBI

Walter Unbehaun told investigators he felt more comfortable on the inside

(AP) - After spending most of his adult life behind bars, 73-year-old Walter Unbehaun was released in 2011—but recently decided to rob another bank in hopes of going back. He felt more comfortable in prison, court documents allege, and wanted to spend his final years there. So the balding, gray-haired man... More »

Escaped Convict Told Judge: 'You'll Hear From Me'

Fellow escapee's mother offers police a lead

(Newser) - The bank robbers who scaled the side of a high-rise Chicago prison are still eluding police, though officials have an informant: The mother of one of the men says they visited her in the suburbs. Kenneth Conley's mom told the pair she couldn't help them. "Then she... More »

Chicago Inmates Escape ... From 17 Floors Up

Bank robbers hunted after daring escape

(Newser) - Cops in Chicago are hunting two bank robbers who pulled off a daring escape from one of the world's only high-rise prisons yesterday morning. Cellmates Joseph "Jose" Banks and Kenneth Conley are believed to have squeezed through a narrow window and scaled down 17 stories to the ground,... More »

LA Bank Robbers Hurl Cash From Car

Scramble for cash slows down cops in pursuit

(Newser) - There was mayhem on the streets of South LA yesterday as suspected bank robbers repeatedly threw cash from a speeding SUV during an 80-minute police chase. "It's our neighborhood stimulus package," quipped one woman as hundreds of people scrambled for the cash in some of the city'... More »

Bank Robber Leaves a Tip

Firefighter turned criminal says he was off his medication

(Newser) - If you're going to go off your meds and become a bank robber, you might as well be polite about it. That's what Texas firefighter Jesus Ventura did this week. According to a federal complaint, Ventura, 37, walked into a Chase Bank on April 10, asked where the... More »

Teller to Bank Robber: We're Closed, Come Back

Improbable fib thwarts robbery

(Newser) - Hate the short hours at your local bank? Think how Olga L. Perdomo feels. Last week, she tried to rob Albany Bank and Trust in Chicago, but was thwarted when a wily teller told her the bank was closed, and to come back tomorrow. The full story: Perdomo walked into... More »

Calif. Bank Hostage Freed After Shootout

Suspect, 3 officers injured

(Newser) - A woman taken hostage by a bank robber in California escaped unharmed after a shootout that injured the robber and three SWAT team members. During an hours-long standoff at the Orange County bank, the suspect freed six other employees, but refused to let the female bank manager leave. Bullets started... More »

Bank Robber Busted When He Returns for Cab Fare

Taxi driver feared passenger was a deadbeat

(Newser) - Police in suburban Atlanta say they have arrested a bank robber so inept that he couldn't get his own money out of the bank. Trevor Gladston, 39, left a Wells Fargo branch empty-handed after handing a teller a note asking for money, police say. Problem? The failed robbery left... More »

Florida Man Tried to Cash $100 Check ... Gets $3.3M

Well, after being mistaken for a robber and having his head kicked by police...

(Newser) - It's not every day that you walk into a bank planning to cash a $100 check—and ultimately find yourself $3.3 million richer. That's what happened to Rodolfo Valladares, just not quite that smoothly. Valladares, sporting a Miami Heat hat, walked into a Florida Bank of America... More »

Teacher Uses Robber, Gun to Teach Kids Spelling

Parents shoot down lesson plan

(Newser) - How do you spell G-U-N? That's the lesson a 5-year-old girl brought home, complete with a picture of a pistol-packin' bank robber escaping with a bag of cash. "The first thing I thought was, ‘Oh no no no,’ I don't want you reading it, I... More »

Man Robs Same NYC Bank 3 Days in a Row: Cops

He hired personal driver for third robbery

(Newser) - A former mental patient allegedly robbed the same bank three days in a row this week while living the high life on his stolen money, the New York Post reports. New York City police say Charles Burnett, 29, robbed the Sovereign bank of $2,200 on Monday and used the... More »

Skeleton in Bank Chimney Is Missing Man From 1984

He got wedged in 27 years ago

(Newser) - It's sort of a good news-bad news situation for one Louisiana family. On one hand, they finally know what happened to Joseph Schexnider, who vanished in 1984—on the other, he died inside a local bank chimney 27 years ago. Construction workers renovating a historic bank discovered skeletal remains... More »

Guy Robs Bank ... to Get Prison Health Care

NC man aimed for 3-year sentence with $1 heist

(Newser) - A North Carolina man with a bad back, a growth on his chest, and no job or money decided to swap his freedom for prison health care by robbing a bank. Richard James Verone, 59, walked into a bank, handed the teller a note demanding just $1—then sat down... More »

Robber Busted 28 Years After Huge Bank Heist

Norberto Gonzalez Claudio spent decades on the run

(Newser) - A Puerto Rican militant has been arrested 28 years after he allegedly took part in one of the biggest bank robberies in American history. Norberto Gonzalez Claudio, 65, is accused of participating in the $7 million armed robbery of a Wells Fargo truck in Connecticut in 1983, AP reports. Claudio,... More »

Man Robs Bank, Hands Out Money

Homeless man swiftly caught by police

(Newser) - Passengers on a Tampa bus got a surprise yesterday, when a homeless man got on and started handing out wads of cash. The source of the loot? A bank the man, 27-year-old Elmer McGuirt, had robbed mere moments earlier, police tell the St. Petersburg Times . McGuirt allegedly walked into the... More »

Bank Robber Suspected in Bomb Plot Near Columbine

65-year-old Earl Albert Moore seen in mall security footage

(Newser) - The FBI suspects a paroled bank robber, still at large, planted a pipe bomb at a mall near Columbine last week , Reuters reports. Earl Albert Moore “is considered armed and dangerous and has an extensive criminal background,” the FBI said. The 65-year-old had been a “person of... More »

'Obama Bandit' Busted

Robber hit at least 7 banks since 2008, say police

(Newser) - A bank robber in Austria who committed a series robberies while wearing a Barack Obama mask has been arrested, reports the BBC . The latest robbery occurred yesterday afternoon, and the bandit was arrested about an hour afterward while hiding out in a nearby forest. The man committed his first masked... More »

Bank Robber Left His ID With Teller

...and got into 2 car accidents, 1 DUI, after leaving crime scene

(Newser) - It wasn't the crime of the century: Pennsylvania police say Daniel Rahynes handed over his driver's license to a bank teller in order to open an account, but whoops!, said he changed his mind and was actually there to rob the bank. The 35-year-old made off in a getaway car... More »

Bag of Urine Snares Bank Robber

Swede who hid in bank vault for weekend left tell-tale DNA behind

(Newser) - A bank robber would probably be free and counting his money today if he'd taken his urine with him along with the loot. The Swedish man and an accomplice spent a weekend hiding in the vault of a Copenhagen bank, emptying safety deposit boxes and using plastic bags when nature... More »

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