Police are searching for a man, believed to be in his 20s, in a wheelchair who is suspected of robbing a New York bank on Tuesday and rolling out of the building with $1,200 cash to make a clean getaway.
The man, who wore a gray hoodie and appeared to be about 30 years old according to surveillance video, is accused of passing a note to a Santander Bank teller in the New York City borough of Queens on Monday afternoon and demanding money, a New York Police Department spokesman said.
Despite never showing a gun to bank workers, the man was not intercepted as he exited the bank in his wheelchair with the loot. The NYPD is still looking for the suspect.
The robbery has left customers and residents shocked and wondering how such a thing could even happen.
“You really can’t trust anybody,” Astoria resident Helen Karagiorgos told the Daily News. “If he’s not disabled, then he’s taking advantage of those who are by pretending. That’s wrong.”
“If this guy got away so easily,” said Matthew Basner, 42, of Astoria, “they could use better security.”
This isn't the first time this sort of incident is happening
A 60-year-old Idaho man in a wheelchair was arrested last year for holding up a First Federal Bank, stopped by police while attempting to flee the robbery scene in a taxi cab.
Also, in 2010, a terminally ill California man in a wheelchair hoping to get medical care in prison held up a Chase Bank with a BB gun. He was arrested outside the building and was sentenced to 21 years’ incarceration.
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