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
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.
ReplyDeleteHe took to heart the saying, "Possession is nine-tenths of the law."
ReplyDelete"If I steal it, it's automatically mine!"
ReplyDeleteKind of like "If my illegal immigrant parents stole into the US when I was a child, I should get to stay"
Good one-to-one correspondence between two seemingly disparate events. One event very local and oftentimes contained, the other nationwide and attributable to one political party which continues to hate America.
DeleteNot really. One is the result of something someone else did; the other is the result of something *you* did.
DeleteUnless, of course, you want to argue that small children should be expected to understand international borders and why crossing them without permission is bad.
At least he didn't steal $400 in nickels!
ReplyDeleteIt's weird how many criminals regard what they've stolen as theirs.
ReplyDeleteYep, voters defend their organized crime as "legitimate". There is no moral rule that says when the gang recruits more than X members it is no longer a crime gang.
It goes hand in hand with the inability to consider possible consequences. Another corollary is the attitude that if the stolen item was returned or replaced, even if not done voluntarily, no crime was committed.
ReplyDeleteI can recall having such limitations as a small child, but grew out of them. I do not know why people manage to make it to adulthood while keeping such beliefs. Perhaps someday we will have an actual science of the mind that can deal with this problem. Until then, these folks will get warehoused and learn to become better criminals. Sigh.