Florida man pulls off $120 bank heist armed with a FINGER GUN tucked underneath his shirt
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Florida man commits $120 bank robbery armed with FINGERGUN under his shirt
- A Florida bum managed to commit a bank robbery armed with only a finger gun
- Paul James Sinclair, 56, stole $120 from Chase Bank in Seminole on Monday
- He approached the desk clerk and demanded the money using only his fingers
- He was arrested ten minutes later and is currently being held in the county jail
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A bum managed to pull off a daring bank robbery with just a finger gun under his shirt—until he was arrested shortly after escaping.
Florida man Paul James Sinclair, 56, allegedly entered a Chase Bank branch in the Tampa Bay area of Seminole on Monday, Oct. 10, just before 1:30 p.m. and approached the clerk.
With what appeared to be a gun pressed to the inside of his shirt, he demanded that bank teller hand over money to Desiree Stefanik.
As Stefanik opened her bank drawer, Sinclair warned her to “don’t press any buttons” while he waited to see if she would accede to his demands.
The cashier took the money from the drawer and gave it all to Sinclair – all $120 – before the bank robber escaped.
“The suspect, Paul Sinclair, entered the Chase bank at 10755 Starkey Road, where he approached bank teller/victim Desiree Stefanik, with his hand under his shirt, and made the shape of a gun with his fingers,” police said.
Paul James Sinclair, 56, allegedly robbed a Florida Chase bank of $120, armed with just a finger gun pressed to the bottom of his shirt
He entered the bank Monday afternoon and demanded that bank teller hand Desiree Stefanik cash and warned her to ‘don’t press any button’
“The suspect then demanded that Desiree give him money from her bank drawer and advised her not to press any buttons while he waited for her to open her drawer.”
Sinclair was arrested at 1:36 p.m. and charged with theft. Described as “transient,” he is being held in county jail after failing to provide $10,000 bail for the crime.
The indictment document states that no weapon was seized from Sinclair when he was arrested.
Last year, according to the FBI, there were 1,724 bank robberies in the US, involving 2,469 bank robbers.
However, only three percent involved the use of violence, and the vast majority involved non-violent crimes.
Most used a note to make the demand, although the threat of violence was present about a third of the time.
Last year, three people were killed in bank robberies, two of whom were security guards.
The largest money robbery ever in the US was the 1997 Dunbar armed robbery in which six men got away with stealing $18.9 million from the bank vault of the Dunbar facility in Los Angeles.
Inside, man Allen Pace, a security inspector for the Dunbar Armored truck company, recruited five childhood friends to help him break in, assaulted the two guards on their lunch break, and loaded the loot into a U-Haul.
They almost got away with it – except a robber got sloppy and loaned some of the stolen money to a friend without removing the original money belts.