NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: Because That’s Where The Bank Robbers Are
After a string of successful robberies of Chase banks in Brooklyn, Jesse Hippolite, 23, changed his Facebook profile name to “Willie Sutton Jr.,” and started boasting about his livelihood (“Crime pays my bills!”) and posting incriminating photos to show what a bada$$ he was, The Smoking Gun reports:
Hippolite was busted last week and charged with sticking up three Chase branches in Brooklyn over the past three months. He is also suspected in 16 similar bank jobs dating back to December (the largest haul, $15,432, came during a December 30 robbery of a Chase branch on Kings Highway in Brooklyn).
In each robbery, a black male suspect handed a teller a handwritten note that stated, with slight variation, “GIVE ME ALL THE MONEY OR ELSE EVERYBODY DIES!!! $100s $50s $20s ONLY,” according to a U.S. District Court criminal complaint that makes no mention of a weapon being used during the robberies.
Following the July 1 robbery of a Chase branch, a bank employee gave investigators a partial license plate of the getaway car used by the robber. In short order, agents traced the vehicle to a friend of Hippolite’s, and discovered that the two men had been arrested together last year for jumping a subway turnstile.
Hippolite is being held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
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