Queens, NY – Police on Tuesday were searching for a man in a wheelchair who is suspected of robbing a New York bank and rolling out of the building with $1,200 cash to make a clean getaway.
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The man, who wore a gray hoodie and appeared to be about 30 years old according to surveillance video, is accused of passing a note to a Santander Bank teller in the New York City borough of Queens on Monday afternoon and demanding money, a New York Police Department spokesman said.
Despite never showing a gun to bank workers, the man was not intercepted as he exited the bank in his wheelchair with the loot. No arrests have been made.
The New York incident is not the first time a person in a wheelchair has robbed a bank.
A 60-year-old Idaho man in a wheelchair was arrested last year for holding up a First Federal Bank, stopped by police while attempting to flee the robbery scene in a taxi cab.
In 2010, a terminally ill California man in a wheelchair hoping to get medical care in prison held up a Chase Bank with a BB gun. He was arrested outside the building and was sentenced to 21 years’ incarceration.
Eliminates having to split the loot with the getaway driver!
The wheelchair was just a disguise, when he exited the bank he most probably took off on foot.
I hope he used the handicapped access teller. Also, is that Trayvon?
Rachmanis on him…maybe he needed the money and we should not be too harsh
If you hand a teller a note asking for money W/O a gun, isn’t that called a WITHDRAWAL ??
Years ago, in NYC, there was an armed guard in every bank. Now, the banks don’t want to spend the money on armed security. In fact, they encourage their employees to “cooperate” with robbers, and hand over the money. In instances where employees have resisted robbers (not only in banks, but in drug stores), they have been fired or disciplined. There is no guarantee that even if one cooperates with a bank robber, and give them the money, that they won’t become violent, and harm the customers or the workers.