A bank robber made the ultimate bad career move when he wrote a holdup note -- on the back of his resume.
Police used the job-search information to identify the man, who was arrested and charged with robbing a Wells Fargo bank branch on Fort Worth's east side.
The man had tried to hide the personal information by taping black construction paper over it. But then he forgot to retrieve the note and take it with him after giving it to the teller.
Police then just peeled the tape from the note.
A tip led police to a Fort Worth motel, where the man was arrested Saturday. He remained in federal custody on a bank robbery charge in the July 15 holdup.
I once met a guy who several years after I met him, went on to hold up a bank. My closest brush with the "criminal element", I guess. They caught him because he left his business card in the gym bag he passed to the cashier, who saw it while filling up the bag, grabbed it and hid it. She thought it might be of interest to the owner...it was. It was also of interest to the FBI. He was a suspended police officer, suffering from depression after a divorce, he owned the bag. And the card.
posted by Jo Fish on 07.27.03 at 10:25 PM
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In college, one of us was good friends with someone who (after an interlude in which it was obvious to everyone else in our circle that he had quite literally lost his mind, and we and he stopped being friends) went on to kill his boss.
