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Sat 1 Jul, 2006 09:22 am
I wonder if it was a "Monday morning robbery"?
Police: Heist Note Had Suspect's Address
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) - Police investigating a bank robbery didn't have to work hard to find their suspect: she lived at the address that was on the back of the note announcing the holdup.
"I don't think anyone realized what was on the other side," Riverhead police Detective Sgt. Joseph Loggia said Friday morning.
Charmaine Williams Stein, 30, of Riverhead, was arraigned Thursday in Suffolk County Court on one count of grand larceny, accused of holding up the Chase Bank on Main Street on June 10 and making off with $22,000.
Detectives determined that the bank teller, John Mueller, 20, was an accomplice of Stein's, Loggia said. Mueller gave her the money and didn't hit the alarm until she was out of the building, police said. Mueller, of Coram, was charged with grand larceny earlier this month.
The note demanding money was on a bulk mail advertisement that had Stein's address on the back, the detective said. Stein, who was believed to have been out of town for several weeks, was arrested at her home on Wednesday night.
She was being held on $20,000 bail.
Obviously this woman wasn't one to spend money on tablets or copy paper.
Maybe she was going to get some with her ill-gotten gains.
Reyn--
You are too, too kind.
I read this week that between 18% and 25% of the population in the U.S. is functionally illiterate. More than three quarters of the kids enrolled in Head Start come from homes without pens, pencils or writing paper. They even lack crayons and coloring books.
Criminals that get caught are pre-selected for stupidity, IMO.
It's hard enough for the functionally literate, many times.