Bank Robber Arrested After Admitting Crime On Live Radio Show

[matcom]

<snip>

The phone call to a popular confessions show on WKSC-FM (103.5) could go down as one of the dumbest acts by a criminal in recent times, authorities said.

Instead of the typical talk of naughty love affairs or childish road rage, a man who called himself "D" volunteered last fall that he and five others robbed a TCF Bank inside a Jewel-Osco last April.

"D" gave specific details of a crime that went unsolved for five months, including that an employee had been in on it, that they tied up the bank workers, that those involved took money from the vault but avoided the dye packs and that they got off with $81,000.

He even bragged about heading to Michigan Avenue days later to buy himself a Louis Vuitton wallet -- in cash.

"So...we set everything up. We planned it out. Turned my house into a ... bank actually and acted it out for like weeks," the caller said, adding he and others were "buyin' Louis Vuitton this, Blass that, everything man."

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-radio23.html

[Renew Deal]

1. Now that's dumb.

:freak:

[LoZoccolo]

2. The idea was stupid in the first place!

Those TCF Banks are basically just like, booths inside the Jewel/Osco supermarkets. I have no idea why they'd want to rob a bank in front of possibly an order of magnitude more witnesses than a standalone bank would have.