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Robber Asked For $1, Waited For Police In Bank
(CNN) -- A man walks into a bank and slips a note to the teller.
The note reads: "This is a bank robbery. Please only give me one dollar."
Then the man tells the bank employees, "I'll be sitting right over there in the chair waiting for the police."
He perches himself on a chair outside the bank he just robbed and waits for the police to arrive.
That suspect, James Verone, who is from Gaston County, North Carolina, said he only wanted health care and meant no harm in the unarmed robbery.
The logic, he told the news station, was to get a three-year sentence so he can get out of jail then collect Social Security and then later live in his Myrtle Beach condo.
Verone told his local paper, The Gaston Gazette that he had worked as a delivery man for Coca-Cola for 17 years. That career ended three years ago, and he couldn't find steady employment. Then the medical problems began. He lived off his savings and sought a part-time job.
The police charged him with larceny, not bank robbery, because of the $1 amount he demanded at the bank. Verone told his hometown paper if the jail penalty isn't great enough, the crime will happen again.
Man Says He Robbed Bank To Get Health Care - Health News Story - WJXT Jacksonville
(CNN) -- A man walks into a bank and slips a note to the teller.
The note reads: "This is a bank robbery. Please only give me one dollar."
Then the man tells the bank employees, "I'll be sitting right over there in the chair waiting for the police."
He perches himself on a chair outside the bank he just robbed and waits for the police to arrive.
That suspect, James Verone, who is from Gaston County, North Carolina, said he only wanted health care and meant no harm in the unarmed robbery.
The logic, he told the news station, was to get a three-year sentence so he can get out of jail then collect Social Security and then later live in his Myrtle Beach condo.
Verone told his local paper, The Gaston Gazette that he had worked as a delivery man for Coca-Cola for 17 years. That career ended three years ago, and he couldn't find steady employment. Then the medical problems began. He lived off his savings and sought a part-time job.
The police charged him with larceny, not bank robbery, because of the $1 amount he demanded at the bank. Verone told his hometown paper if the jail penalty isn't great enough, the crime will happen again.
Man Says He Robbed Bank To Get Health Care - Health News Story - WJXT Jacksonville
