New York City – A prolific bank robber dubbed the “bad hatter” — for the varied headgear he wore during heists — has been arrested after a DNA match from his discarded Band-Aid helped crack the case, court documents and sources said Wednesday.
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Thomas Kenney, 58, of East Northport, a family man who has a day job at a dental supply company, was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of robbing 13 banks, federal court documents say.
Kenney, of 42 Pine Dr., is charged with robbing banks in Nassau, Suffolk, Queens and Brooklyn over the past two years. He was scheduled for arraignment Wednesday in U.S. District Court, Central Islip.
Images of his creative headgear were captured on surveillance video. A black hat favored by Hasidic Jewish men.
Kenney is accused of robbing 13 banks one of them Williamsburg Chase Bank, on Flushing Avenue, on March 12
one man’s trash is his ticket to the slammer. guess he wasn’t careful enough to throw away the evidence.
Wow , he looks exactly like my grandfater. I hope its not him
OMG he looks like the Rav of my shul….
I guess they have diferent hold up tactics
Notice, he didn’t have a Kipa Serugah, he must have known that those guys would never rob a bank!
I have been approached by a detective out side Police Headquarters (aka One Police Plaza)if i think this man is hassidic or just wearing an hassidic hat. i told the detective the he or the hat does not look hassidic.
cool get up a friend of mine dressed this part on HAlloween
He looks exactly like the guy who embezzled money from my husband. Maybe this embezzler is not really Jewish.
ho doesnt look chasidish, he looks more like litvish yeshivish to me.
he used to be a neighbor in illinois