Man Tried To Rob Six Nyc Banks In 5 Days – And Made Off With Just $605

A man who went to nan effort of robbing six New York banks successful 5 days made disconnected pinch a expansive full of conscionable $605.

Gustavo DeJesus Torres, 33, began his disappointing crime spree precocious past week, erstwhile he walked into a branch of Chase and handed nan teller a statement stating that group would get wounded if they did not manus complete money. The statement did not propose that Torres was armed.

Just an hr later, he tried nan aforesaid stunt again astatine different New York City Chase branch, and nan pursuing day, he utilized nan aforesaid method doubly more, again astatine Chase branches.

After having 2 days off, he targeted 2 much of nan financial giant’s locations.

During 2 of his attempts, Torres' method was mildly fruitful, leaving nan premises pinch $320 from a branch successful Jackson Heights, Queens, and $265 from a branch connected Nostrand Avenue successful Flatbush, Brooklyn, complete nan weekend.

During his robbery of a slope connected West 125th Street successful Harlem connected Tuesday, he emerged from nan premises pinch $20, nan constabulary said.

Meanwhile, successful 3 of his different heist attempts, his audacious method grounded to output immoderate results. According to nan NYPD, “the individual did not get immoderate money and fled connected ft to parts unknown,” The New York Times reports.

Police are now connected nan hunt for Torres, and person released respective security-camera photographs of him.

One of nan images shows him connected nan subway level holding a cup of coffee, pinch his headphones dangling information his neck, pinch an look of low-key despair communal among commuters – yet nan image was taken during nan 57-minute interval betwixt an unsuccessful robbery of 1 bank, and earlier nan comparative triumph of taking $265 from nan Nostrand Avenue branch of Chase.

Records besides propose he whitethorn person honed his low-key slope robbery techniques successful nan past, arsenic a 2021 news report reveals a man pinch nan aforesaid name, past aged 29, was arrested by constabulary astatine his Newark, New Jersey, location aft he had robbed a branch of Chase bank, reportedly handing nan teller a statement which read: “I’m heavy equipped don’t make a scene."

During this incident, nan fishy walked disconnected pinch $6,000, which was ne'er recovered, but Torres was charged pinch first-degree robbery. It is unclear what happened pursuing this charge.

He is besides believed to person robbed a slope to nan tune of $600 past year, according to nan Times.