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How Bank Robberies Actually Work | How Crime Works - YouTube
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My name's Cain Vincent Dyer,
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and I robbed over 100 banks
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between 1999 and 2001.
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This is how crime works.
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For anyone out there that is watching this
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and you think you're going to go
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commit bank robberies the way I did
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or I'm telling you in here,
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you are going to find yourself in jail.
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Leave bank robbery alone.
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So, one of the things
that I would do initially
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when I walk into a bank
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is walk in and go straight
to the merchant teller.
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Because I always knew
that the merchant teller
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would more than likely have
the most amount of currency.
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We've watched so many movies
where people are like,
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"Hey, put your hands in the air!"
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I think people naturally go
to do that when they hear,
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"Hey, this is a robbery!"
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The reasoning for me asking
them to put their hands down
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or telling them to put their hands down
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is because you didn't want
someone walking past the bank
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and seeing someone standing in a bank
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with their hands up or
laying on the floor.
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So it was always just,
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"Put your head down,
keep looking forward."
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That way, if someone
did walk into the bank,
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they wouldn't even really
realize what was going on
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until they were already in it.
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And what that would kind of do
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is it would let me read the
temperature of the room.
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It would let me see if the people
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were either very compliant
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or very slow to move
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or if they seem nervous and scared.
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Then I would kind of tailor
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how I would express myself after that,
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trying to be more calming.
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And, unfortunately,
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if things were moving kind of slower,
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I would probably be a
little bit more aggressive
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to the overall crowd.
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Checking the temperature,
doing that one teller,
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that one merchant teller,
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I knew if I decided
not to go in the vault,
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that I would still have
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a reasonable outcome for the payday.
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That merchant teller
along with the manager
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is the person I would
have walk me into a vault.
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And like I said,
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if they were just a little
too afraid or anything,
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then there were times where
I wouldn't go into the vault.
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Typically, I picked banks
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that were close to merchants.
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That way, I knew that that bank
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would more than likely be the banker
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for all those merchants that were there.
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And that would mean that that bank
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would more than likely
have more cash on hand.
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The other thing was it
always had to be a bank
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that was relatively close
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to multiple interstates.
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And one of the other things
was how the bank was set up.
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Were there multiple ways
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that I could enter or exit?
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Like, casing the bank would consist of me
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watching the employees.
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And I would always watch to see
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who looked like they
were in the most control.
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So, sometimes, I'd case a bank for a day,
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for a day and a half, and then go.
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That's if it was a bigger bank.
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And I would watch the flow.
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I'd watch the timing of the flow,
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I'd watch the pickup.
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I took probably, I don't know,
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a few weeks, a month off,
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and just taught myself
everything about banks.
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At that time,
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got in a hole of all different
types of bank manuals,
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employee manuals, employee
guides, everything.
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Safes, lock safes, time vaults.
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During my bank robberies,
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as far as attire would go,
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I would just always try and fit in
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in whatever element was present.
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It was always pretty much
just dressing down, you know,
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jeans, a jacket, trying
not to stand out too much.
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I definitely used the Krazy Glue
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to protect my fingertips and my palms.
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I would always wear a pair of glasses,
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always a baseball cap,
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and that seemed to cover enough.
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The mascara would be,
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basically, it depended where I was.
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If I was in a place where
there are more ethnic people,
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I would typically do a beard.
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If I was in a place where
there were less ethnic people,
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I would more so sometimes
go in clean-shaven
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or a really light shave.
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I would actually look
at weather conditions.
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Because, of course, in an area
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where it's going to be
raining or overcast,
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you can layer more.
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If it was sunny outside,
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there are a lot more people out,
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so there's probably more chances for me
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even to blend in.
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On a rainy day, though
you get to bundle up,
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you still get to know that there
aren't a lot of people out.
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So people are going to
probably be looking at you.
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In certain cities,
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you had to account for different times
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that I would be going into a bank
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and not getting stuck
in a rush-hour traffic.
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Though there were banks
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that I absolutely would
do it at rush hour,
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just because it would take
longer for law enforcement
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to get to me if there
was a lot of traffic out.
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So, we've seen in movies that cops
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have this response time
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of about three to five minutes.
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And that's pretty accurate.
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That is not just Hollywood.
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So I would park across the street
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or in some direction where I wasn't alone,
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standing out by myself,
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my car wasn't the only one.
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And I always used a car that would fit in.
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Something that was really typical,
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that you would just see a lot of.
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What I would always try and do is
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make sure that wherever I was parked,
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that it would not be in view of anyone
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that would be standing in a bank
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or immediately outside of a bank.
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So I always gave myself enough space
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to get away and then kind of disappear.
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So, when exiting a bank,
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once I felt I was out of sight,
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I would turn a corner or something,
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then I would trot a little bit further
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once I wasn't in front of a bank trotting.
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As soon as I'm in my car
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and my mascara's off,
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I turn on my radio, roll down my windows,
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take off my hat, and I'm singing.
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I've got music on.
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Cops pass me.
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I'm looking at them,
they're looking at me,
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because what they're actually looking for
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is the guy that's not looking at them.
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Listen, when a bunch
of cops roll past you,
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or even firetrucks, what do we all do?
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We all look.
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So the one guy they're looking for
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is the guy who won't
look at them. [laughs]
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As they're driving to it,
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they're looking to see if anybody's
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trying to ignore them, typically.
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How I would end up checking for dye packs
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is different depending on
what type of money I took.
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If it was just the merchant teller,
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then of course that money is loose.
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Even though it's in
stacks, it's still loose.
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So what I would do is
once I got all my mascara
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and things off and I was
set and ready to drive,
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I would literally put a
bag of money next to me
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and go through it,
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and then throw that money on the floor.
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I would get back to my stakeout,
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and I would go through all the money,
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taking my clothes, making
sure they were burned,
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putting my fingers in solution
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so I could get the Krazy Glue off.
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I would hide the money
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in several different places,
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but to be a little bit more specific,
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there was this one place
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that I had opened up the floor of it.
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I don't know, at one point there had to be
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just millions of dollars in this floor.
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There were a couple of times
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I actually put money
in, like, a bank vault.
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In, like, a safety deposit box.
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Wouldn't that've been
ironic, had it gotten ...
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had there been a bank robbery
and it'd gotten stolen, huh?
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The way I ended up
getting into bank robbery,
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a very, very close person to me,
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a relative, a sibling had gotten involved
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with a criminal organization.
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There was just no way he was
going to get around this debt.
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You know, it would have been
a matter of life or death.
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Had this debt not been
paid, taken care of,
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the person would have lost their life.
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Those first set of banks,
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that paid off that debt.
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Those six, though, were
a lot less preparation
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and more desperation.
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Initially, I felt bank robbery
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was this victimless crime.
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I thought it would just be
a better crime to commit.
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I felt like I was taking
from an institution
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versus a person, which
I wouldn't have done.
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My first bank, I was literally
just looking for any bank.
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I was going down the freeway
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and actually had to use the restroom.
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So I pull off the freeway.
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It was at this Calabasas exit.
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I pulled in there to go to the restroom.
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I ended up parking,
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and right in front of me were two banks.
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There was a Chase and
there was a Wells Fargo.
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And I sat there for a time period
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trying to determine
which one I should go in,
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just watching the flow of people.
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Had this baseball cap and stuff,
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and I kind of pumped myself up.
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Had this firearm with me,
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and I'm heading towards the bank.
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And as I get towards the
bank, two things happen.
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One, there is this lady
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who is at the bank that
seemed pregnant to me.
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And it was just like,
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"Ah, I can't go in there while
pregnant lady's in there."
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She gets scared and the baby's harmed,
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so I was like, "Whoa."
I kind of turned back.
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And as I went to turn back,
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there was this car window right there.
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And I look in the car
window, and I notice,
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"Oh, my God, I can totally see myself."
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Like, I can make myself out.
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So I went to this store that
was miles down the road.
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I end up getting this backpack.
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And I also got some mascara
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and some Krazy Glue to
put on my fingertips,
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as not to leave any fingerprints.
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Because I didn't want to walk
up to the bank with gloves on,
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which is, to me, pretty obvious.
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It was a sunny afternoon.
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There was that chord
while I was at this store
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that just kind of struck me like,
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"What if someone tries to stop me?"
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It made me
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purchase a replica,
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like a air gun or something like that.
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But it looked very, very authentic.
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So I purchased that
and decided to use that
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in the robbery instead.
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Realizing that I probably
needed a bigger bag,
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so I end up grabbing this backpack.
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I realized that the backpack
had these double zippers
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that I could partially
open that would make it
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like a perfect sack.
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That I would be able to put things in
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and still have another hand free.
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Hence the name, Kangaroo Bandit.
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When my consciousness
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started to awaken again,
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I think I can no longer hide
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behind the life and death,
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imminent danger that was there before.
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I know if I would have kept doing it,
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I would have got caught.
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When I decided to turn myself in,
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of course I let my family know first.
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And then, my attorney and I,
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we contacted the FBI.
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And at first they were like,
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"Yeah, oh, absolutely, absolutely."
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What I did not know at that time
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was someone had already
kind of given them my name.
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I contacted them on a Wednesday,
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and I plan on meeting them on a Thursday,
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excuse me, a Friday.
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And instead, they were like,
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"No, we're not waiting on you to come in."
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They did this huge raid on my home
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on a Thursday night.
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But the only way they
were able to take me in
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was if they found something
on that search warrant,
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which they weren't able to find.
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Before he left, though,
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he and I had this conversation,
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he being the FBI agent.
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So I told him, "I'm
going to take some time
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to go spend with my family.
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And then, when I'm ready,
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I'm going to turn myself in."
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And I was letting him know,
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"Don't worry, I'm not going to run.
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I'm not going to bolt, man.
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I'm going to keep my word.
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I told you I'd keep my
word and turn myself in."
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And I end up doing that.
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So when he saw me and I saw him
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after I had greeted my family,
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I actually walked up to him
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and we kind of embraced,
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we actually hugged each other.
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I surrendered. It was like,
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"OK, now I begin my life."
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Well, I did not understand
back in that time,
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the psychological tolls
that the victims suffered.
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The heavy cost I was having others pay
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to get out of the situation I was in.
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And so what I've done
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in an attempt to rectify that,
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or to make right,
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I've worked with victims.
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I've worked with ex-offenders.
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And, hopefully, any victim
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that suffered at my hands
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and because of my actions,
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you know, maybe they can take some comfort
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in knowing that today, I actually,
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you know, I've tried to wrong that.
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I didn't try,
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I like to think I am
righting those wrongs.
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Volunteered for years.
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For almost four years straight,
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I volunteered four days
a week, four hours a day
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to help people get their lives back.
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Whether it's an inmate or,
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excuse me, a former inmate or a victim
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or other people that
are moving through lives
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that don't have criminal aspects
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but just get stuck in life.
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