[Vision2020] Among America's Dumbest Criminals

[Tom Hansen]

Advice for all you aspiring bank robbers out there: When using a note to 
announce the stick-up, the back of your pay stub is not, repeat NOT, a 
suitable piece of paper

Courtesy of today's (December 29, 2008) the Daily Herald (Cary, Illinois).

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FBI: Cary man's bank robbery note included name, address
By Charles Keeshan, Daily Herald Staff

Authorities say a Cary man escaped a Chicago bank heist Friday with nearly 
$400 cash.

But he also left something behind: A pay stub listing his name and address.

Now Thomas Infante, 40, is facing a federal bank robbery charge alleging 
he held up the Fifth Third Bank at 4071 W. Lawrence Ave. by handing over a 
note implying he had a weapon and threatening harm if his demands were not 
met.

Infante, of the 0-100 block of Willow Circle, appeared Monday before U.S. 
Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys in Chicago and ordered held without bond 
pending his next court appearance. 

FBI agents arrested Infante in Cary after tracking him down with 
information he left at the scene.

According to an FBI affidavit filed Monday, Infante walked into the bank 
about 5:50 p.m. Friday and handed a teller a note reading, "Be Quick Be 
Quit (sic) Give your cash fast or I'll shoot."

After receiving $397 cash, the robber fled, leaving behind the note which 
had been written on the back of a pay stub that had been torn in half.

Investigators later discovered the other half of the pay stub, listing 
Infante's name and Cary address, just outside the bank's front 
doors "apparently discarded by Infante as he was fleeing," the FBI said. 

The stub indicated Infante was paid $165.99 by Jewel Food Stores on Oct. 
23, according to the affidavit.

FBI agents tracked down Infante in Cary, and he subsequently confessed to 
the robbery, the affidavit states.

FBI spokesman Ross Rice said it is not the first time a bank robber has 
left behind an obvious clue to his identity. 

"We had a robber who wrote a demand on a deposit slip with his name on it 
and another who wrote on the back of an envelope that had his address on 
the other side," he said. "He's not the first to do this and probably 
won't be the last."

Infante is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago. 
He could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the bank robbery 
charge.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"For a lapse Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
to work."

- Roy Zimmerman


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