N.Y. Banks Robbed 4 Times in a Week

[December 19, 2007]  NEW YORK (AP) -- A man held up two banks on a street near his home four times in the last week, including one of the banks twice in one day, before he was arrested on Tuesday apparently while on his way to make another illegal withdrawal, police said.

Orlando Taylor, 26, was facing multiple robbery charges, police said. The name of his attorney was not immediately available Tuesday evening, and a telephone at his Brooklyn address was disconnected.

The spree began at 10:30 a.m. Friday, when the bandit used a threatening note to rob an HSBC branch about 12 blocks from his home, police said. Using the same method the next day, he ripped off a Bank of America branch down the block, they said.

On Monday at 10 a.m., the robber hit Bank of America again, police said. After changing his clothes, he returned at about 2:20 p.m. and took more money, they said.

With uniformed and plainclothes officers swarming on Tuesday, Taylor was spotted headed toward the HSBC branch again and was arrested, police said.

Each robbery netted between $450 and $3,500.

Through Monday, reports of bank robberies citywide were down 3 percent, to 266 from 274, compared with the same period last year.

[Associated Press]

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