Man Robs Banks After Applying For Car Loan, Wrote Note On Paycheck

I would think that if someone was going to go so far as to rob a bank, that they might at least put a little thought into their plan before carrying it out.

A California man robbed two banks, but made it easy for authorities to track him down because he had applied for a car loan at one of them before robbing it and wrote his ‘stick-up’ note for the second robbery on the back of one of his own pay stubs.

According to Recordnet.com, the 47-year-old was already on supervised release from jail for a previous conviction. About a month prior to the robberies he had gone to one of the banks and applied for a car loan. He came to following month to rob the place and handed a teller a note demanding $5,000. While she was getting the money, the teller that had helped him with his loan came over and greeted him by name before he nodded at her and took of with the money.

The second robbery was very similar, he walked in and handed a teller a note demanding $100 bills. He took over five-grand from this bank but left his note behind. The note, however, happened to be written on the back of one of his own voided paychecks that had his name and address on it.

A car loan, surveillance video, name, address, and phone number…this one must have taken a lot of work for a gumshoe to get to the bottom of.

[Recordnet.com]

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