A 19-year-old boy from Colorado, USA, was arrested hours after buying a gaming system from his local Wal-Mart. The reason: he paid for the console with money he had stolen from a bank earlier that week.
Tyler Matthew Schnapp was “down on his luck” and unemployed when he walked into a Wells Fargo Bank on 14 May 2014 carrying a black BB gun and a handwritten note explaining that he was there to rob the financial institution.
After handing the note over to a teller and showing his faux-lethal weapon, Schnapp made off with $1,300 (±R13,500).
Unfortunately for the amateur bank robber, he took his plunder to a local Wal-Mart later that week and bought himself a gaming console. He was identified by police at a nearby roadblock soon afterwards, and was arrested on the spot.
Which console does our budding criminal prefer? We don’t know – news publications tend to leave out important details like whether he bought an Xbox One or a PlayStation 4, and focus on “what charges he will face” and other useless information.
Tyler Matthew Schnapp – Crime doesn’t pay
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Source: Daily Record News
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