Mr. Schiff: Bank robbers aren’t always the smartest people around. You never know what they’re going to do. And you have to wonder why they would hold up a business where cameras are running 24/7. In Chicago, FBI Special Agent Ross Rice has one about a real non-thinking bank thief …
Mr. Rice: "The robber entered the bank, scribbled out a demand note on the back of a piece of paper, which turned out to be a torn half of his pay stub.”
Mr. Schiff: Now that portion of the pay stub didn’t have his name. But Rice says the thief had the other half, with his name on it, but not for long…
Mr. Rice: " Apparently on the way out of the bank, he crumbled up and threw the remaining half of his pay stub to the ground. When our agents responded and processed the crime scene, they found the crumbled up portion of the pay stub outside, matched it up to the note he left behind with the bank teller, and we considered that to be a clue .”
Mr. Schiff: The robber was arrested and if convicted, could be in prison for 20 years. I’m Neal Schiff of the Bureau and that’s what’s happening at the “FBI, This Week.”
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