Bank Robbery Story

[MaxMan]

One day at the bank I worked for (not my office) a man came in with a western style hat pulled down over his face a bit, walked up to the teller and stuck a revolver in her face and demanded money/.
He ran out to his car got in started to dive off and Bang the die pack went off in the closed automobile. So there he is making his get away with his head out the window (die pack coated the inside of all the windows) coughing and gasping for air at about 20 miles per hour. Needless to say, police had no trouble catching him.

 

[txramfan]

Back in early 2000s my son worked at a bank in the DFW metromess. One morning he noticed people with long arms walking up to the bank, told the manager and they locked the doors.The police and FBI were in the parking lot trying to arrest them, the attempted robbery didn't happen and the robbers escaped.
My son learned later his name/address along with his co-workers were in the possession of that crew.
This link shows those bank robbers , different day same group.

 

[MaxMan]

I have been in the bank when robbed four times, two were bad, pistol whipping one of the customers, bad guy courtesy of a lenient parole board.

 

[Kevin]

I didn’t think robbing banks anymore was worth the risk?

 

[MaxMan]

I didn't think robbing banks anymore was worth the risk?

This was1990s into the oo's. No, these smart criminals use a Bic instead of a Ruger.

 

[vito]

There was an attempted bank robbery at a small branch bank less than a mile from where I live. The security officer, an off duty LEO, shot and killed the robber as he was fleeing away from the bank, and the local prosecutor didn't make a decision as to whether or not to prosecute the shooter for about a year. Finally the decision was made to not prosecute. The bank is still in business, but no longer has any armed security, which I assume is due to the bad publicity of having had an attempted robber shot dead at their front door.

 

[eveled]

My Dad had a friend whose LEO career was ended by a bank robbery.

He was walking across the street after getting a cup of coffee. An armed robber came out of a bank. The robber took a shot at him and hit him in the hand.

No cover, no way to draw his gun. He just stood there and the guy ran away.

I have worked with 2 guys who separately became bank robbers after they left the company.

 

[Jeepnik]

The bank is still in business, but no longer has any armed security, which I assume is due to the bad publicity of having had an attempted robber shot dead at their front door.

Most likely nothing to do with publicity. More likely it has to do with lawyers and liability.

 

[txramfan]

I have been in the bank when robbed four times, two were bad, pistol whipping one of the customers, bad guy courtesy of a lenient parole board.

Wow.
Our daughter, back in the 2000s, also worked at a bank. She came back from lunch one day and found out the bank was robbed when she was gone.

My dad, back in the early 1930s, was walking up to the bank in Orange Cove CA with his dad when bank robbers ran out the door , got in a car and made their escape.

 

[MaxMan]

Most likely nothing to do with publicity. More likely it has to do with lawyers and liability.

Our bank determined they were a waste of money. The rent a cop service sent us an old retired NYC cop who talked to all the customers more than they wanted to be talked to. The replacement was a guy sho leaned on the teller station sucking albuteral all day, nest. A you kid with a long barreled >357 (He mad sure we knew that) who talked about his fast draw.. GONE. We decided that the rent a cop way was not worth it. Real cops too much money. That office was never robbed while I was there.
At another bank we hired a real cop for Friday nights. It was in an industrial area in a bad part of town. The guys on payday would go out and have a few beers (and a few a few too many) a come cash their checks. One time a guy didn't have ID and started giving the teller a bunch of grief. The cop pulled him as side and questioned the no ID. The guy finally produced parole papers and was asked to leave. Another guy, a different time didn't have ID but the check matched the name on his shirt. The teller asked if anybody in line knew the guy. One of the well-known regulars said yeah, I know him he was sleeping with my sister, that was coined the cohabitation Identification. The cop did say the in that neighborhood and class of criminal. banks were considered big time. Gas stations and liquor stores were much easier and convenient almost like ATMs. .

 

[Jeepnik]

We have a good friend that worked for a local bank after college. She was breaking in to professional dancing (no not that kind, keep you mind out of the gutter). Her day job (most performers have day jobs even when they have been successful for years), paid the bills. She was robbed twice. The first time she just sort of froze then finally gave the guy the money. The second she was so angry she chased the guy out of the bank and down the street. She did catch a little grief from management as instructions were to just comply.

 

[kmoore]

While I was in det's. I wasn't assigned in robbery but helped at times. Arrested a few during that time. For some reason bank robbery was normally a weekly event and ramped up nearing 2000. I think the numbers doubled for a while. In one day 3 happened in the city. Die packs were a thing of the past back then. Money packs had tracking TAGS put into them. I won't go into details about those. I could write a few chapters in a book about the bank robberies. Some were tragic, some stupid. As a crook there are easier and better places to rob than a bank.

The case I was involved in that really pissed me off was:
Bad guy had his niece use her car to take him to the airport. He stopped to get some money at Wells Fargo in NE Portland. She thought he was withdrawing his money not robbing the bank. The money had a TAG in it. Bad guy was dropped off at airport and he gave his niece the bills with the TAG and he knew it. Up to the airport he was followed by an undercover PD car. When the car left the airport, I picked it up. I was in an undercover car in plain clothes. So I had no way of stopping it. Within a couple minutes 2 marked units were with me and we did a high risk stop.
I did the interview at the stop and soon knew she was not lying to me. Her uncle was arrested as he stood in line at the airport gate. What a P.O.S. to do that to a family member. She was 22 years old, had a job, no criminal record. As many crooks say "he was just getting his life together", he also said he just needed money to start over in Georgia.

 

[MaxMan]

While I was in det's. I wasn't assigned in robbery but helped at times. Arrested a few during that time. For some reason bank robbery was normally a weekly event and ramped up nearing 2000. I think the numbers doubled for a while. In one day 3 happened in the city. Die packs were a thing of the past back then. Money packs had tracking TAGS put into them. I won't go into details about those. I could write a few chapters in a book about the bank robberies. Some were tragic, some stupid. As a crook there are easier and better places to rob than a bank.

The case I was involved in that really pissed me off was:
Bad guy had his niece use her car to take him to the airport. He stopped to get some money at Wells Fargo in NE Portland. She thought he was withdrawing his money not robbing the bank. The money had a TAG in it. Bad guy was dropped off at airport and he gave his niece the bills with the TAG and he knew it. Up to the airport he was followed by an undercover PD car. When the car left the airport, I picked it up. I was in an undercover car in plain clothes. So I had no way of stopping it. Within a couple minutes 2 marked units were with me and we did a high risk stop.
I did the interview at the stop and soon knew she was not lying to me. Her uncle was arrested as he stood in line at the airport gate. What a P.O.S. to do that to a family member. She was 22 years old, had a job, no criminal record. As many crooks say "he was just getting his life together", he also said he just needed money to start over in Georgia.

Closest I saw to that was the girl who pulled up and tried to rob the drive with two kids in the car.

 

[kmoore]

Closest I saw to that was the girl who pulled up and tried to rob the drive with two kids in the car.

Thats low. A meth head?

 

[redhawker]

Back during the Arab Oil Embargo, when we had gas lines and had to buy gas every other day depending on our tag number, I worked for a while as a bank teller. The bank wasn't too far from a couple of gas stations that had lines wrapping around the block when they had gas to sell. One day, this drugged-out dude came in and gave me the "this is a robbery" note. The bank's policy was to just give him the money when something like that happened. The local cops, who were tied up directing traffic at the gas stations, took a few minutes to get there and he was long gone. They caught him a few days later. It was an interesting experience.

 

[kmoore]

The funniest bank robber case: 2 undercover guys and I were having a conversation in a restaurant that we met at often. The owner and staff knew we were cops so we got a back table then we could talk cases and have portable radios on, 1 on dispatch, 1 on our tac net.
Dispatch tones out with a felony in progress followed by "robbery Wells Fargo 82 and Powell". We all turn our heads and look out the window as dispatch gives suspect information. We were across the parking lot from the bank.
Yep, there he was running across the parking lot toward the restaurant. We form a plan, the other 2 will pursue on foot and I get my car to catch up. The crook runs right past the window 5 feet from us and around the corner. He continued running on the sidewalk on Powell. I caught up to them in about 2 blocks, The crook was exhausted and stopped. My partner JD was applying cuffs on the crook as he was face down on sidewalk as I pull up. Sirens were getting close as I got out. Another minute passed and the crook was enroute to see the robbery detectives still at the office. JD wrote the 2-paragraph report back at the restaurant. The crook was unarmed. Another meth head, a skinny little 20 something. Later back at the office, everyone was laughing at the case. Det. Sgt. said that was the fastest arrest of a bank robber ever known. I don't know if it was or wasn't but maybe 5 mins from the 911 call to the arrest.