Weird & Dumb, But True
By Alicia Cruz
The Black Urban Times
Smoking kills, they say, but for this Montana thief, it landed him in the pokey before it killed him.
Police say 64-year-old Vincent John Sullivan allegedly walked into a Sterling Savings Bank branch in downtown Missoula, Montana Tuesday morning, and approached a teller saying he was armed and demanded an undisclosed amount of money. The teller complied and Sullivan was on his way....to breakfast, according to Newscore.com.
That's right, a man can work up quite an appetite robbing a bank and taking off like a bat out of hell.
When police arrived at the bank, eyewitnesses gave a detailed description of the thief and officers began searching the neighborhood for an "overweight man" in his 60s, standing six feet tall, and wearing a gray sweatshirt.
Officers didn't have to search far or long since the hungry bandit strolled across the street from the bank to the Liquid Planet, an organic coffee house, for a breakfast of bacon and eggs minus his sweatshirt, which he traded for a green New York Jets Jersey T-shirt.
"He was sweaty," Liquid Planet employee Nathan Talley told the Missoulian. "He wanted eggs really bad."
Coffee shop employees say Sullivan left after asking another employee to call him a taxi. Within minutes, police were at the coffee shop flashing a photo of their bank robber, and the employees told the officers Sullivan had just left and gave them the name of the hotel he was staying in.
In the meantime, Sullivan's in a taxi cab and asks the driver to stop by a convenience store for a pack of stogies before taking him across the city to the University of Montana campus.
Moments after Sully's cab arrives at the Doubletree Edgewater Hotel, police arrive, guns drawn, and surround the cab. They removed Sullivan and placed him under arrest before collecting $20 from cab driver, James Anderson, as evidence.
All in all, it took officers a half-hour to locate and apprehend Sullivan.
"It was like watching ‘Cops' live," eyewitness Deborah Stroud, 56, a retired Ravalli County reserve sheriff's deputy, told Missoulian. "They did a felony take-down."
The Black Urban Times
Smoking kills, they say, but for this Montana thief, it landed him in the pokey before it killed him.
Police say 64-year-old Vincent John Sullivan allegedly walked into a Sterling Savings Bank branch in downtown Missoula, Montana Tuesday morning, and approached a teller saying he was armed and demanded an undisclosed amount of money. The teller complied and Sullivan was on his way....to breakfast, according to Newscore.com.
That's right, a man can work up quite an appetite robbing a bank and taking off like a bat out of hell.
When police arrived at the bank, eyewitnesses gave a detailed description of the thief and officers began searching the neighborhood for an "overweight man" in his 60s, standing six feet tall, and wearing a gray sweatshirt.
Officers didn't have to search far or long since the hungry bandit strolled across the street from the bank to the Liquid Planet, an organic coffee house, for a breakfast of bacon and eggs minus his sweatshirt, which he traded for a green New York Jets Jersey T-shirt.
"He was sweaty," Liquid Planet employee Nathan Talley told the Missoulian. "He wanted eggs really bad."
Coffee shop employees say Sullivan left after asking another employee to call him a taxi. Within minutes, police were at the coffee shop flashing a photo of their bank robber, and the employees told the officers Sullivan had just left and gave them the name of the hotel he was staying in.
In the meantime, Sullivan's in a taxi cab and asks the driver to stop by a convenience store for a pack of stogies before taking him across the city to the University of Montana campus.
Moments after Sully's cab arrives at the Doubletree Edgewater Hotel, police arrive, guns drawn, and surround the cab. They removed Sullivan and placed him under arrest before collecting $20 from cab driver, James Anderson, as evidence.
All in all, it took officers a half-hour to locate and apprehend Sullivan.
"It was like watching ‘Cops' live," eyewitness Deborah Stroud, 56, a retired Ravalli County reserve sheriff's deputy, told Missoulian. "They did a felony take-down."
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