By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Christopher Andrew Gibson is accused of robbing a bank while still wearing the clothes he had on when he was released from jail earlier in the day, NBC 7 San Diego reports. Surveillance video shows Gibson wearing the same button-up shirt he was wearing when he was released from George Bailey…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man accused of robbing banks wrote error-free demand notes that prompted the FBI to dub him the “good Grammar Bandit,” the Associated Press reports. He’s accused of robbing four banks in metro Denver in less than a week. His letters were “perfectly typed, spelled and punctuated,” the AP wrote. The suspect…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Chicago bank teller who was getting robbed gave up more than $1,700. The Chicago Tribune reports that the bank employee also handed the robber a global-positioning system that helped the FBI and local police track him down. The GPS device activated as soon as the robber left the bank, alerting authorities…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover was never as it seemed, and supportive reporters had no qualms changing the narrative to make the bureau look good, the Topeka Capital-Journal reports. Take April 6, 1939, when an inexperienced FBI agent shot and killed a bank robber, Bennie Dickson, under questionable circumstances. The agency…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The suspect is accused of robbing so many banks that he’s earned two nicknames – the “Elephant Man Bandit” and “Cyborg Bandit.” Seattlepi.com reports that authorities arrested a 44-year-old Washington state man on suspicion of robbing 30 banks in the Seattle and Marysville areas in the past year. “(We’re) very elated,” Capt. Steven…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com This wasn’t your typical bank robber. The young man with a busted lip, facial bruises and a swollen eye walked into a Houston Bank wearing no disguises. He pulled out a pistol and demanded money, the Houston Chronicle reports. The robber escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. Investigators have dubbed him…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Some serial bank robbers have unfortunate monickers. Consider these three robbers wanted by FBI agents in San Diego County – the “Toothless Bandit,” the “Beer Gut Bandit” and the “Bomb Bandit.” The three men are wanted for at least a dozen bank robberies in San Diego County, reports NBC San Diego. Each…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An accused serial bank robber who led authorities on a two-hour manhunt took time out of his court appearance Wednesday to thank the FBI, the News-Democrat reports. “The FBI has been very nice to me,” Carl Frederick Kieffer told U.S. Magistrate Stephen Williams during an initial appearance on federal bank robbery charges….
