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Subscribe to RSSCalifornia's notorious "geezer bandit," who is suspected of robbing more than a dozen banks, has struck again. This time, however, he may have left behind evidence that could get him caught red-handed. Msnbc.com's Brooke Sopelsa reports.
The notorious bank robber "Geezer Bandit" has struck again, according to the FBI official.
But this time, he may have left behind a crucial clue that could give investigators the break they need to capture him.
Friday evening around 5:40 p.m., the bandit robbed a teller at a Bank Of America branch in San Luis Obispo.
"He pointed a revolver pistol at a teller and threatened the teller with the use of that weapon and he did receive some money and he left the area," Special Agent Darrell Foxworth said.
San Luis Obispo police investigators said the bandit didn't get far with the money because a dye-pack exploded as soon as he left the bank.
The thief dropped the money in the parking lot.
"The suspect would possibly have red on his hands and clothing,"said Lt. Bill Proll. "We did have a witness report that a white 5 series BMW took off at a high rate of speed."
But video from the scene of the dye-pack explosion also showed a leather-bound address book or dayplanner lying on the ground. It appears to be very similar to the one the suspect carries during his robberies.
In the surveillance photos from the robbery, you can see him carrying a case that resembles the one found in the parking lot.
FBI agents won't comment on any possible evidence found at the scene.
"Hopefully we'll have additional information from the robbery and that will move the investigation forward," Foxworth told NBCSanDiego.
The suspect has been linked to 16 robberies in California, most of them happened in San Diego County. There is a $20,000 reward for his capture and conviction.
Read: NBC San Diego's "Geezer Goofs, Leaves Behind Clues"
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It's OK. He's just protesting the banks.
AZ, or just trying to get back some of our bailout money back 8-)
In Atlanta, Georgia, Chase Bank ( recipient of Billions of federal dollars in bail-out money aid,to keep it afloat) this week sent deputy sheriffs to the home of a 104 year old lady to foreclose upon what looks like a shack ( though the lady has lived there for 50 years)...they were going to toss this lady and her 85 year old daughter out and change the locks.......abominable behavior by Chase Bank..the scene broke the hearts of the deputy sherriffs and the furniture movers and they refused to carry out the Bankers demands to throw them out...
Now, in the news item above, we see this elderly man,so stretched financially that he has to rob banks to stay alive.What has become of us ? Is there NO compassion for the elderly ? The Republicans want to cut back or END Social Security and Medicare !! ....and they want to cut taxes for the wealthy !!!
This past summer,I overheard two bus drivers chatting,one asked the other how often he'd been in jail, the other replies 3-4 times. The inquirer said "me too, you know,jail ain't so bad...you get fed 3x a day, cell is warm in winter and you have your own TV remote ! The other man chuckled and agreed, he replied " when I'm working,my paycheck is gone by Tuesday, you're right,jail ain't so bad...wifes always nagging me to make more money,but I work 5o-55 hours a week, that pay doesn't go far these days"
But the top 1%, the 340,000 of this nations "elite" get richer and wealthier every year...and the Republicans want to give them a tax cut..........a tax cut for the big bankers at banks like Chase Bank.
The 104 year old woman's grandson owned the house and had a 2nd mortgage that he hadn't paid on for 7 years! What is this sense of entitlement to other people's money?? How about the bottom 50% that pay no taxes start. How about cutting out the billions that wetbacks rape the US out of each year? How about the Democrats quit spending a trillion/yr in the red?
Chase Bank sucks
Maybe Barney Frank backed her grandsons loan LOL...
Liam, I, too, live in Atlanta, and I bloody CHEERED when I heard the deputies refused to evict her.
The man commiting these robberies, not so much. That teller didn't screw this guy, she just needs to work. Pointing a gun at HER is wrong. Now were he holding up a CEO as he gets in to the Mercedes he bought with his seven or eight digit, post bail out bonus? Okay, that I have no problem with. However, if news reports hold the fact right, and it's proven it was him, the man made his getaway in his OWN BMW.
Change is coming, but what form it will take worries me enough that I am stockpiling survival necessities. YES it is wrong that the 1% already enjoy more breaks than we working stiffs. YES it is even MORE wrong that politicians want to give them MORE breaks. However, to truly change what is wrong with this country you have to so fundamentally alter the basic fabric of this nation (BUSINESS runs America, not capital hill) you will, in essence, catastrophically alter it to the point there will BE NO AMERICA. No, I'm not talking civil war, or anarchy to the point people are shooting one another in the streets for a can of soup, but a collapse on such a scale we splinter in to small enclaves and individuals surviving by their own means (hunting, herding, and agriculture on a local level). Think The Postman without the fallout and wastelands.
RDG6, It restores my faith in mankind that your post was collapsed by the community before I got here. You are a pathetic human-being.
Go, Geezer Bandit!!
San Luis Obispo is a quite a distance from San Diego County. Guess now that the police think he may have a Beemer, he'll be getting around a lot more. Does he know the way to San Jose? Or perhaps he left his heart in San Francisco. Look out Santa Cruz...you may be next.
I was just paintin the barn officer,really!
Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, give a man a bank and he can rob the world.
Excellent! We should be seeing that on a sign soon and rightly so. Encore! Thanks for the smile...
Priceless Russ thank you
"The sting in any rebuke is the truth" - Benjamin Franklin
Russ, outstanding quip, I am entering it into my quote book; thanks.
Touche, Russ. Well said!
Fabulous, Russ.
love it Russ!
OWS protester,obviously
He is obviously D.B. Cooper who has finally run out of the ransom money that he had with him when he jumped out of the plane...
For being infamous, this is the first I've heard of him; given the name 'geezer bandit' I'm assuming he's more successfull at his endeavors, as he's probably shaking like hell when pointing the gun and demanding money..... no one wants to take a chance on an erroneous 'senior moment' with the trigger being held!!
Just remember this, you insensitive dolt, if you're lucky, you'll be old one day.
MikeO76...Shut up please you are old that why you are bitching
Good grief, Mike. Insensitive dolt? Rather uncalled-for, don't you think? Get pissed at the person that named this guy the 'geezer bandit'.
Hey, FATMONKEYS, I'm old and I was just about to tell Mike076 to shut up. Why do so many people lose their sense of humor as they age? We need it more than ever when we're old.
Rock on, ModerationInAllThings. That was funny. Hope you don't live by your screen name though; moderation in all things can get really boring.
russ-605187
Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, give a man a bank and he can rob the world.
You got that right Russ! Nice play on the old Chinese proverb: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
I like yours better and it's just as timely.
.....now where the heck did I leave my dayplanner?
will they catch him red handed ??????????
If it was anywhere other than B.O.A. perhaps I could have sympathy.
Totally agree with you!!!!!!!!!!
It's Bank of Obama now...No wait, we can still blame Bush???
Hey, Chase is just as bad. They're all the same, just like the politicians.
And of course we blame Bush, dano.
Cheers to the Geezer Bandit! Take what you can from these thieves. Old Man Robbin' Hood.
Rog that TK: Glad he's not wearing tite's. Just getting money for maid Marion???
I just look at the guy getting even for the rest of us. If enough banks get robbed maybe the CEO'S will get less of a Bonus. Maybe they'll only get $30 million bonus instead of $50 million.
Yeah...!! The banks have been robbing Americans for too,too many years with refinancing scams,hidden fees,new fees etc. The banks can actually borrow money from Uncle Sam for 1/2 % interest and then re-invest it the same day in US Traesuries which pay 3 1/2% interest !! So, they borrow "our" money on the cheap, and rent it back to us through a different federal agency and earn 3% net a year on money that isn't even theirs !!! Now you know why there are Wall Street Protestors.........
liam,
I would agree if those WSP didn't look like left over hippie dumb azzs from the 60"s...Rich kids with nothing else to do..
The poor guy is just trying to support his Viagra habit...
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
BMW? really? I think the bank teller could have taken him out with just a bundle of one dollar bills ($100), guess his retirenment wasnt what he expected..
Here, here!!
Isn't that the guy who danced in the commercials for the amusement park?
Guess he had a 401k instead of a real pension.
He left a day-planner in the parking lot? I'm betting it's empty, just a prop. It's what I would do, if I was going to carry a day-planner while robbing a bank.
An old farmer goes in and robs a bank and all types of law enforcement agencies go searching for the farmer from the local sheriff to the FBI. But when the banker robs the farmer nobody seems to care but the farmer.
The sad thing is, he should have gotten a job at a bank, you can steal more with a pen then a gun.
figure it this way, he is only taking our tax money, maybe his share of the stimulis that obama bailed their ass out with
He robbed a Bank of America! He is my hero. Screw the Bank of Amercia! Just not the bank for me!
I doubt that the teller who had the gun pointed at him/her would consider this scumbag a hero. Just because this guy is old, it doesn't make him any less of a low life than any other punk of any age. If this was a young drug addict, a lot fewer people would be cheering for this thug. On the plus side, if this guy does get caught, he will most likely spend the rest of life behind bars.
@Joe,
Why, did they just want u to pay back the money that they loaned u ??
We rob a bank, we go down, a bank robs us, they get a very nice (BONUS).
I bet he had a damn 401k.
Fellow geezers, rise up!
Count me in.
I can see the headlines now:
New epidemic in LA: Banks being robed and terrorized by bandits with oxygen tanks.
It is just to bad that they made such a quick get-a-way. Those elderly can be such slippery characters.
Looks like BirdMan of Alcatraz.