Robbed a Bank 20 Minutes After Walking Out of Prison – The Dumbest Crime Spree Ever Caught on Camera
He didn’t even make it to lunch.
Picture this: the prison gates swing open, guy steps out in fresh civilian clothes, takes one deep breath of freedom… and immediately decides the best use of his first hour as a free man is to hit the nearest bank. Not tomorrow. Not after a shower and a burger. Right now.
Security footage picks him up strolling into a Chase branch in broad daylight wearing the exact same gray sweatpants and white tee he got issued that morning. No mask, no sunglasses, no attempt at subtlety. Just walks straight to the teller, slides over a note that basically says “give me all the money or else,” and stands there tapping his foot like he’s waiting for coffee.
Teller hits the silent alarm without breaking eye contact. Dude grabs the cash—about $1,800 in twenties—stuffs it in a plastic grocery bag (because of course he didn’t bring anything smarter), and casually walks out like he just paid a utility bill.
Cops are already rolling before he hits the sidewalk. Why? Because the second he stepped out of prison, he was on parole with an ankle monitor that started screaming the moment he crossed the street toward the bank. GPS pings put him inside the branch before the dye pack even had time to think about exploding.
Three blocks later, patrol cars box him in at a gas station where he’s trying to buy cigarettes with a wad of fresh twenties still rubber-banded from the teller drawer. Bodycam catches the most defeated “you’ve got to be kidding me” face in criminal history when the officer goes, “Sir, you know we literally just watched you leave prison, right?”
Back in cuffs in under thirty minutes. Total time from freedom to re-arrest: 47 minutes. Fastest re-offend on record in that county, probably the state.
The cherry on top? He told detectives he did it because “I needed bus money to get home.” Bro, the parole office had a free voucher waiting for you two miles away.
Sometimes reality writes the script Hollywood would never dare pitch.
