Thursday, January 12, 2023

Olympic level bicyclist was robbing banks in nonsecript colothing, then getting out of the bank, ditching the clothes, and biking off looking like any other cyclist in lycra


Tom Justice biked to his bank heists. He’d leave his custom-built, orange Steelman road bike unlocked outside, then saunter in and hand the teller a note that said something along the lines of, “I’ve got a gun, give me the money.” 

Then the former Olympic-hopeful track racer would walk out with a plastic bag full of cash, transfer it to his messenger bag, strip down to the cycling kit he wore underneath his street clothes, and ride off unnoticed

Between 1998 and 2002, Justice pilfered from 26 banks in Chicago, San Diego, and Wisconsin

thinking the bills were traceable, he kept a couple as souveniers, and then he put the $20 and $100 bills into paper bags and discarded them in alleys where he knew homeless people would find them. 
He took all the $2 bills and hid them in the bushes outside his apartment for kids who played in the courtyard to discover. 

Most of the cash drawers he was getting in each robbery, had 2-5 thousand dollars. One heist netted 10,274 dollars. He pocketed all the $5s and $1s and left the $20s inside public restrooms and port-a-potties at beaches

in 2002, at 31 years old, Justice was arrested, he spent nine years in federal prison. He now works in a donut shop.

2 comments:

  1. A modern day Robin Hood!

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  2. banks dont have cash nowdays,
    I have no idea why people still rob them, they have no cash and every cop for 200 miles and the FBI are looking for you,

    I went to my bank to withdraw $8K to buy a car, and they didnt have it.
    they had to order the cash and I had to wait several days before they could get it.
    nowdays the easy money is identity theft and credit card cloning. the cops wont even write a report for credit card cloning and fraud unless you pitch a fit and demand it. and they certainally wont spend any effort looking for the person who cloned your card.

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