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08-15-2003, 02:37 AM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1018175,00.html
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Convicted bank robber JL Hunter "Red" Rountree is not letting old age stand in his way. The 91-year-old Texan is back behind bars, accused of robbing his third bank in five years.
Police say Rountree walked into a branch of the First American Bank in Abilene, Texas, on Tuesday morning, demanded money from a teller and passed over a large envelope with "ROBBERY" written on it.
He left in a car parked near the bank. A witness wrote down the numbers on the licence plate and police tracked the car.
In December 1998, one week before his 87th birthday, Rountree was arrested in Biloxi, Mississippi, minutes after robbing a bank. He was given three years' probation, fined $260 and told to leave the state.
In October 1999 he was arrested outside a NationsBank in Pensacola, Florida, after ordering the teller: "Give me the $100s." He was convicted of bank robbery and sentenced to three years in prison, becoming the oldest inmate in the Florida prison system.
Abilene police said about $2,000 had been taken in the latest robbery.
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Guess Social Security doesn't pay too much these days. :shrug:
http://www.lemonizer.com/upload/uploadsAug/rountree.jpg
Convicted bank robber JL Hunter "Red" Rountree is not letting old age stand in his way. The 91-year-old Texan is back behind bars, accused of robbing his third bank in five years.
Police say Rountree walked into a branch of the First American Bank in Abilene, Texas, on Tuesday morning, demanded money from a teller and passed over a large envelope with "ROBBERY" written on it.
He left in a car parked near the bank. A witness wrote down the numbers on the licence plate and police tracked the car.
In December 1998, one week before his 87th birthday, Rountree was arrested in Biloxi, Mississippi, minutes after robbing a bank. He was given three years' probation, fined $260 and told to leave the state.
In October 1999 he was arrested outside a NationsBank in Pensacola, Florida, after ordering the teller: "Give me the $100s." He was convicted of bank robbery and sentenced to three years in prison, becoming the oldest inmate in the Florida prison system.
Abilene police said about $2,000 had been taken in the latest robbery.
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Guess Social Security doesn't pay too much these days. :shrug: