Doofus Of The Day #68

It has indeed been a good week for Doofi.

Oscar Reynolds of Jonesboro, Arkansas, was acquitted of bank robbery on August 21st this year, because bank staff could not positively identify him as the criminal concerned.

So what did he do?

He went back to the same bank - and robbed it again!

A Craighead County man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of bank robbery — only one month after he was acquitted of robbing the same bank, court records showed.

Oscar Reynolds, 35, Jonesboro, was arrested for allegedly robbing Liberty Bank, 765 East Matthews Ave., about 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

Reynolds also was scheduled to appear in Craighead County Circuit Court on Tuesday to answer to charges of aggravated assault and aggravated robbery in the beating of an elderly Jonesboro woman inside the downtown post office last fall. Reynolds is accused of stealing the woman’s purse and her car.

A spokeswoman for the Craighead County Deputy Prosecutor’s Office in Jonesboro said Reynolds failed to appear in court Tuesday.

Circuit Court Judge Cindy Thyer acquitted Reynolds of bank robbery on Aug. 21 after bank employees could not positively identify Reynolds as the person who robbed them in October.

Jonesboro Police Detective Todd Nelson said Reynolds went inside the bank Tuesday and asked to open an account.

“During the transaction [Reynolds] demanded money and produced a weapon,” Nelson said, adding that the suspect robbed the clerk of an undisclosed amount of money.

Reynolds fled, but police reviewed the bank’s security camera and identified Reynolds as their suspect. A search of the area of the immediately area followed.

“Our officers received information and went to an apartment on Vandyne. Reynolds was arrested there without incident,” Nelson said. “We recovered the firearm that we believe was used in the robbery. We also recovered some of the money.”

Nelson said one of the bills in Reynolds’ possession at the time of his arrest had a serial number that matched a bill that was provided by the bank employees.

“Within two hours of the robbery, [Reynolds] was under arrest,” Nelson said.

Reynolds was being held in the Craighead County Detention Center in Jonesboro awaiting a bond and probable cause hearing today.

You know, it takes genius to be that dumb . . .



Peter