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The man, who wore
a gray hoodie and appeared to be about 30 years old according to
surveillance video, is accused of passing a note to a Santander
Bank teller in the New York City borough of Queens on Monday
afternoon and demanding money, a New York Police Department
spokesman said.
Despite never showing a gun to bank workers, the man was not
intercepted as he exited the bank in his wheelchair with the
loot. No arrests have been made.
The New York incident is not the first time a person in a
wheelchair has robbed a bank.
A 60-year-old Idaho man in a wheelchair was arrested last year
for holding up a First Federal Bank, stopped by police while
attempting to flee the robbery scene in a taxi cab.
In 2010, a terminally ill California man in a wheelchair hoping
to get medical care in prison held up a Chase Bank with a BB
gun. He was arrested outside the building and was sentenced to
21 years' incarceration.
(Reporting by Laila Kearney; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and
Sandra Maler)
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