Posted on 01/12/2005 7:48:38 AM PST by Rakkasan1
The Fishing Hat Bandit's run appears to be done.
FBI Special Agent Paul McCabe said that, based on the investigation to date, evidence has been developed that allegedly ties John Whitrock to multiple bank and credit union robberies in the Twin Cities area.
While declining to elaborate, McCabe said, "We are confident that the suspect known as the Fishing Hat Bandit is no longer a threat to the banking community."
McCabe wouldn't say how many robberies the FBI suspects Whitrock of committing or whether his girlfriend, with whom he shares a townhouse in Burnsville, had a role in any of them.
While authorities wouldn't discuss why Whitrock allegedly robbed the banks and credit unions, he has four unpaid federal liens and civil judgments totalling nearly $16,000. Most of those debts come from unpaid taxes in 1991 connected to a small business he owned. Mystic Lake Casino also is trying to collect about $1,200 for bad checks he wrote in 1999.
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Good luck to Mistake Lake getting their money now.
"Because that's where the money is."
I guess I can take my fishing hats out of the safe now.
-While authorities wouldn't discuss why Whitrock allegedly robbed the banks and credit unions, he has four unpaid federal liens and civil judgments totalling nearly $16,000. Most of those debts come from unpaid taxes in 1991 connected to a small business he owned.-
He probably opened the "business" to run a con, then graduated to robbery, plain and simple. He's never shown a gun, I understand; con men prefer not to use weapons.
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