Bank thief caught when he stopped to eat at a New York restaurant: the bills had a tracker

A suspect in robbing a TD Bank in Brooklyn (NYC) was arrested yesterday with the money on him when he stopped for breakfast at a Vietnamese Chinese restaurant on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

A tracking device hidden in the stolen bills led police to the suspect, who was arrested at the “New Kim Tuong” restaurant on Chrystie St. near Hester St. around 10 a.m. Friday. His name was not revealed in the report.

The restaurant workers confirmed that the man ordered fried rice with shrimp and sat down to eat before the police unexpectedly arrived, he explained. DailyNews. The robbery had occurred an hour earlier in another area of ​​the city: the TD Bank headquarters on Fourth Ave. near 39th St. in Sunset Park, shortly after 9 a.m.

During the robbery the robber told a teller that he had a gun and demanded money, but did not show any gun. The amount taken was not immediately disclosed.

Upon leaving the bank, the robber was seen running down Fourth Ave. towards 36th St. and the nearest Metro station. The police activated the tracker and realized that it had appeared in Manhattan, near Sara D. Roosevelt Park, around Grand and Chrystie streets.

As the man was leaving the restaurant he was intercepted and the stolen money, still wrapped in the bank band, was found with him. “They got the wrong guy, man! “That’s my money,” the suspect told the police as they took him away in handcuffs. “That’s my Social Security!” he said while being handcuffed. “I got a $50 million loan from the bank!” he insisted.

Last month, a woman was accused of stealing a car, robbing a bank and crashing head-on into a patrol car while trying to escape, injuring a state trooper (NYSP) on Long Island.

In 2021, Craig Gernett, an alleged serial bank robber with an extensive criminal record, was arrested after being sought by the NYPD for several weeks as a suspect in a series of robberies while he was on parole.

All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.

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