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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Today's Idiot
2009-08-14
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A 34-year-old man is in custody after authorities say he gave a teller his account number and showed her his picture ID before robbing an Anchorage bank.

The FBI says Jarell Paul Arnold of Anchorage is being held on federal bank robbery charges. The FBI alleges Arnold walked into an Alaska USA Federal Credit Union branch Friday and inquired about the balance on his account. The teller asked for his name, account number and ID.
I needed to know how much money I needed to steal.
Authorities say he complied, and then handed over a receipt with a note on the back that said he had a gun and demanded money.
Wait a minute! I don't know how that got on there!
The FBI says he got away with about $600. Authorities arrested Arnold on Monday. A message left after business hours Wednesday with Arnold's public defender, Michael Dieni, was not immediately returned.

Court records say Arnold was sentenced to 57 months in prison for bank robbery in 2004.
Posted by:Deacon Blues

#3  Cry for help more likely than not.

A cousin of a friend of mine robbed his own bank. Bank where they knew him by name. His father was a cop or sheriff so he knew the guys that showed up to arrest him. Nobody knew, until then, that he'd developed a drug problem. Now drugs might simply have made him dumb as a post, but I tend to think he was seeking help and couldn't ask his father for whatever reason.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2009-08-14 15:49  

#2  Is it just me, or is the quality of idiots going downhill lately?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2009-08-14 14:40  

#1  Court records say Arnold was sentenced to 57 months in prison for bank robbery in 2004

Wow. That didn't take long. Must have been missing his buddies and found a way back in.
Posted by: gorb   2009-08-14 01:24  

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