Robbery suspect spray-paints face for disguise, dies

WIS TV ^ | 21 August 2009

[aomagrat]

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Richland County deputies say a man spray-painted his face in order to disguise himself during a robbery, but died after he had trouble breathing after the robbery.

Sheriff Leon Lott says on July 31 at around 7:00pm 23-year-old Michael Gregory Thomas and 24-year-old Thomas James entered the Sprint PCS store on Sparkleberry Lane, pulled out a guns and demanded money.

Lott says the two men stole wallets, purses and credit cards from employees as well as money from the store before ordering the employees into a bathroom while both men fled.

Lott says Thomas James spray-painted his face in order to conceal his identity during the robbery. Investigators later learned that after the robbery took place, James began having trouble breathing and died.

Witnesses from the store identified Michael Thomas as one of the robbers, and Thomas was arrested on August 17, taken to the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center and charged with armed robbery.

Richland County Coroner Gary Watts says they are running toxicity tests on James and are waiting for them to come back to learn James' cause of death. Watts said it will take a couple of weeks before the tests come back.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Yeah, yeah, but no spray can you have says anything about using the paint to disguise yourself, nor does it say anything about spraying it on your body.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Oldpuppymax]

And Hussein loses two more votes.

[MHGinTN]

Oh ye of little faith in the ACORN’s work. In Hussein’s world, the dead vote and vote again.

[bleach]

LOL, I just finished watching the 1st series of Adder, Starting two later today.

[mowowie]

I posted a milk crate disguise story a while back.

Recently i saw one with the robber wearing a 12-pack box on his head. lol

[Flag_This]

"LOL, I just finished watching the 1st series of Adder, Starting two later today."

I liked the first series, but I think the later ones were better.

[rabidralph]

Didn’t he ever see Goldfinger or Quantum of Solace?

[One_Upmanship]

Must have been priceless. I suppose when one is crazed by drugs and desperate, the disguise seems like a perfectly good idea at the time.

There was also a good story recently about a cross-dresser : "After sifting through old surveillance photos of other robberies, detectives found a photo of what appeared to be a female suspect wearing a dress, according to an affidavit for arrest warrant.

A closer look at the “woman” involved in the March 13, 2008, heist at the Wells Fargo bank in the 100 block of Northeast Loop 410 showed a striking resemblance to 22-year-old Jack.

After detectives returned to the Wells Fargo recently, employees there said they recalled that the woman who held them up in 2008 had an “Adam's apple.”

Bank employees picked Jack out of a photo lineup.

and then and don't forget the guy wearing a dish towel!

[bleach]

Agreed. I watched them many years ago and showed my wife one with Hugh Laurie she couldn’t believe it was HOUSE.

[calex59]

Probably sucked in some of the fumes while painting his face. Another one gone to the big prison in the sky!

[mowowie]

Life can be F’ed.....and pretty funny too:)

[csvset]

Was golden disguise a death mask?

Shirley Bassey: GOLDFINGER

[Kozak]

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Rust_O_leeum!

[Flag_This]

"she couldn’t believe it was HOUSE."

Show her the "Young Ones" episode called "Bambi" (I think). Hugh Laurie plays "Lord Monty" on the game show University Challenge.

[trisham]

Thomas James:

[Slings and Arrows]

Mr. Darwin, I like your style!

[mylife]

[mylife]

L0L! I saw last week were some “huffer” got tazed and caught on fire L0L!