Most people go out of their way to avoid ending up in prison, but one Utah man actually robbed a bank, for only USD$1, just so he could get arrested and be thrown into federal prison.
65-year-old Donald Santacroce committed one of the most bizarre bank robberies in history. He walked into a Wells Fargo Bank in Salt Lake City and handed over a note to one of the tellers. The note read: “Please pardon me for doing this, but this is a robbery. Please give me $1.00. Thank you.”
The teller complied with Santacroce’s demand but also asked him to leave with his USD$1. But, he told her that he had just robbed their bank and that she should probably call the police. He then sat down in the bank lobby and waited to be arrested.
As the bank manager was leading bank employees into the backroom for their safety and locking the doors, the elderly bank robber could be heard complaining about how long it was taking the police to get there.
“Donald made a statement to the victims that they are lucky [he] didn’t have a gun because it was taking the police so long to get there,” the arrest report said.
After a while, police arrived and arrested the 65-year-old, not realizing that this had been his plan all along. No one really knows why, but he really wanted to end up in federal prison. Perhaps, conditions in federal prisons are more comfortable than in local prisons or in the old man’s current lifestyle. Robbing a bank is a federal crime that sends the convicted bank robber to a federal, not a local, jail.
He even told the officers that if he were released, he would just rob another bank for more money until he ended up in federal prison.
Currently, Donald Santacroce is no longer in Salt Lake County Jail, which probably means local banks should expect another weird robbery very soon.
News reports say that the 65-year-old had been arrested the previous week for careless driving and having a suspended driver’s license.
This is not the first time that we have heard of people demanding to be put behind bars. We once wrote about a guy that robbed a bank just so that he could get away from his wife, and there was also the man who stole from a store to get arrested because he could not afford to be free.
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