MEMPHIS, Tenn. – An alert-eyed teller saw a familiar face while she was out shopping last week – the face of the man who had robbed her at First Financial South CU the previous day.
The teller’s husband got the man’s license tag and authorities later arrested the suspect and charged him with bank robbery and using a firearm to commit a violent crime.
Court documents say the suspect approached the teller last Tuesday morning and slid her a note saying, “No bait, no dye. I have a gun and I will shoot.” The man then lifted his shirt to show the teller the handle of a black pistol tucked in his waistband.
The teller then began handing the gunman money from her drawer and when she reached for a dye pack the robber raised his eyebrows and again lifted his shirt.
The following evening, the teller was shopping with her husband when she saw the man again. “[The teller] and the robber locked eyes and she knew him and he recognized her,” according to court records.
She told her husband, who watched the man exit the building and get into a beige colored car. The husband copied down the license tag for authorities who traced it to the suspect.
The teller then picked the suspect’s likeness from a photo spread and identified him as the robber.
“As soon as the photographic lineup was placed on the table,” court records said, “[the teller] started crying and identified the photograph of [the suspect] as the person who robbed FSFCU and the person she saw at Walmart on Sept. 28.”
