Elderly Bank Bandit: I Robbed to Pay Off My Mortgage

[RamboLiberal]

Source: NBC San Diego

"I had to get us out of this," the elderly man said Friday from the other side of the glass at San Diego central jail. "I've never done a bad thing in my life. But when you get desperate, I guess you throw all that sh-- out the window."

Listening to how Michael Casey Wilson of Santee tells it, a 17 percent mortgage, the threat of homelessness and a terminal health condition will turn a man to crime.

Wilson, 69, is accused of walking into the Bank of America branch in the 4100 block of El Cajon Boulevard in City Heights and handing a bank manager a demand note, saying he had a bomb. Prosecutors said he made off with $107,000 before he was caught lying on a front porch near the bank.

"I wrote them an apology. I am so sorry," he said referring to the employees who rushed out of the bank. "It's not my purpose in life to scare people."



Read more: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Suspect-Wanted-50K-to-Pay-Off-His-House-59800292.html

[grahamhgreen]

1. How sad.

[roguevalley]

19. too bad I'm not his judge. I would give him probation and go after the

shysters who have him at 17%. May they burn in hell.

[Turbineguy]

2. "... not to scare people..."

We are now scared of a 69 year old man. Mission Accomplished.

[BlooInBloo]

3. Sigh.

[wroberts189]

4. More on this.... amazing.

Almost 70 years old with a cane and unarmed ...managed to get out with over 100k after being surrounded by police.


On edit check out the pics:

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Not-Your-Usual-Suspects-59333762.html


Meet the Geriatric Bandits: One has a cane, the other needs an oxygen mask. They're old enough to be your grandfather. This past week, they've both robbed banks. And one is still at large.

On Saturday, a man carrying an inhaler or an oxygen tank robbed the San Diego National Bank in La Jolla. The man, wearing a white beret, argyle sweater and sports coat, walked into the bank on Ivanhoe Avenue with a demand note. In the picture caught by surveillance cameras, he looks to be in his 70s. An oxygen tube appears to hang from his face.

Investigators don't know if he was armed, but they do know that he got away with some cash. Just look at him -- would you stop him?

Then, two days later, another bank robbery. This time, the target was the Bank of America on El Cajon Blvd in City Heights. A 70-year old man -- with cane, mind you -- walked into the bank with a note and demanded a large amount of cash.

The bank manager attempted to evacuate the bank and lock the suspect inside, but Geriatric Bandit No. 2 was too crafty. Despite dozens of police cars surrounding the bank, he hobbled out of the bank using a side door and tried to hide on the porch of a home a few blocks away.

Police found him lying on the porch and arrested him -- maybe his bright red hawaiian shirt gave him away.

[Dreamer Tatum]

5. Tellers are trained to hand over the cash no matter what, because

getting shot by a 70-year-old gets you just as dead as would getting shot by a 20-year-old.

[Skittles]

9. CORRECT

it is not advised that bank workers try to assess a criminal situation when a lethal weapon is involved - period

[wroberts189]

10. Well I do not know how these things go but it was just a bomb note.

And you can tell by the pics he is not strapped up with C4

[slackmaster]

32. I used to write bank office procedures a long, long time ago

Branch employees are trained to treat a bomb note just as seriously as they would a gun in their faces. The bank figures the $1,000 - $2,000 they lose in a typical robbery is not worth risking the expenses they'd incur if an employee gets injured or killed.

By the time the teller hands over the cash, the 35 mm movie cameras (that's what they had back in my day) have already captured detailed photos of the robber, and the police have been called.

[BOG PERSON]

6. Now he'll finally learn to live within his means...

IN A PRISON CELL

:nopity:

[starroute]

8. You sound inappropirately happy about that

Are you really so callous?

[wroberts189]

12. I guess they do not realize the guy had nothing left. 2 years to live.

He might actually get good health care now.

But his poor wife will now be alone.

The lack of empathy here can be disappointing but most of us I believe see this as a bad sign of the desperation in our times. Its a tragedy and a shock.


imho
If he had got away what would it have mattered to anyone? It might have been a TARP bank.. getting billions of tax money. Rich bankers laugh at us getting billions while some poor old dying guy tries to save his and his wife's life with one last final act of desperation to grab a measly 100k to these Bankers.


America? You watch the movies ..can you walk the talk?

[OwnedByFerrets]

11. Must be nice to live in your pefect fucking world.

:mad: :puke:

[BOG PERSON]

17. It's not a perfect world

just one where individuals take responsibility for their choices, good or bad.

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[thereismore]

13. You would of course never stoop so low as to break the law. Go f yourself. nt

[coalition_unwilling]

22. Welcome to my Ignore list, scumbag - n\t

[CubicleGuy]

25. If he does go to jail...

... he'll end up living within YOUR means.

Bet that warms the cockles of your heart.

[BOG PERSON]

26. n/m

[wroberts189]

7. Those damn Hawaiian shirts ...give you away every time. nt kick

[provis99]

14. so how much did Bank of America rob from us?

If it weren't for the fact of endangering the ordinary employees at Bank of America, I'd be in favor of more taxpayers holding them up to get our money back.

[notesdev]

15. That was my thought too

If you do the math, figuring in what the bank stole from him through the government, usury, and other fraud and trickery, even after grabbing the cash he probably ended up less than even.

[Suji to Seoul]

16. When an old man holds a bank up with a note and steals 100K, it's bank robbery

When an old arachic institution like a mega bank holds up the economy with its greed and shady business practices and steals BILLIONS, it's "economic stimulus."

Again, George Carlin was right:
"If you want the (he said drug traffic; I'll say business practices) to change, you need to execute some of these fucking banker. White, suit wearing Republican bankers. If you execute one banker a week, if you put one banker a week on a wooden cross, you'll see (the busniess practices) clean up pretty fucking quick!"

[zonkers]

33. If this was China, we would see the occaisional execution of a banker.

[BunkerHill24]

18. I bet he's whitey and can get off community service!

peep!

[grahamhgreen]

20. Troll alert

[BunkerHill24]

21. LOL

:kick:

[slackmaster]

24. I wonder how the hell he ended up with a 17% mortgage

I haven't heard of rates that high since the mid-1980s.

[WriteDown]

29. That is a good question. nt

[Vidar]

27. Give Mr. Wilson Geither's office. He'd do a better job with it.

[WriteDown]

28. He's 70 and has a mortgage?

:shrug:

[slackmaster]

30. A lot of people that age have the tail-end of a mortgage

My mom paid off her last one at about 70. Sometimes it makes sense to keep one if the rate you are paying is less than your investments are making.

It's the 17% part that I don't get. There is more to this story.

[WriteDown]

31. Yes...

Its just the 17% and 70 years old that has me confused.