Today's award goes to a bank robber in Ohio.
A 42-year-old man was arrested Friday morning after robbing the Huntington Bank on West State Street, marking the city’s first bank robbery since 2010.
According to the Alliance Police Department, Jauan L. Mason, recently moved to Alliance from Akron, entered the bank around 9:20 a.m. and claimed he had a weapon. He demanded cash and fled on foot with approximately $400 in one-dollar bills.
Police responded immediately and searched the area. Patrolman Paul Vesco located Mason walking on South Union Avenue near State Street. Mason had changed clothes and was carrying the stolen money.
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During his arrest, he reportedly asked police to deposit the stolen cash into his jail commissary account.
There's more at the link.
It's weird how many criminals regard what they've stolen as theirs. "If I steal it, it's automatically mine!" - except that the law doesn't see it that way. I've encountered that attitude time and again among prison inmates during my time as a chaplain. I'm sure the police had a lot of fun pointing out to him that his deposit was going to be a big fat zero.
In this case, kudos to the teller who kept several big bundles of $1 bills in his/her drawer. It looks like a lot of cash, but in actual value it's not worth much. The robber simply grabbed the big bundles, doubtless congratulating himself on his score, and ran off with them without counting them.
Peter
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Interesting insight - anyone else would consider it 'not theirs,' but to a thief, it's 'theirs'. No question of returning it. Wondering about that brain glitch.
He took to heart the saying, "Possession is nine-tenths of the law."
"If I steal it, it's automatically mine!"
Kind of like "If my illegal immigrant parents stole into the US when I was a child, I should get to stay"
At least he didn't steal $400 in nickels!
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