First, agents said, Cruz chose a
teller who, protected by bulletproof glass, rebuffed his robbery. Second, as if
it wasn’t enough to botch the stickup, he left behind a robbery note
conveniently containing his name.
According to FBI agent Sarah
Gioielli, Cruz, dressed in a long-sleeved shirt and ball cap, strode into the
bank at 101 S. Pompano Parkway and presented a note to an unidentified female
teller.
“Give me the 100s 50s 20s now,” the
note stated. “Do not set the alarm. Hurry!!!”
The teller simply backed away from
her bulletproof window. Cruz, stymied, fled the bank empty-handed.
But, agents said, he left his
stickup note behind. His demands had been penned on the back of an online job
application form, complete with the handwritten username of CRUZFELIPE36. It
also included a password, Gioielli stated in a federal criminal complaint.
Broward Sheriff’s Office
investigators then lifted fingerprints from the note that matched those of the
39-year-old Cruz, Gioielli said. They determined he lived in an Oakland Park
apartment about 4 miles from the bank.
Police are now actively searching
for the hapless holdup man. The charge: attempted bank robbery.
“By trying to rob a bank with a
demand note written on the back of his employment search form, the robber has
given us a clue,” FBI agent Michael Leverock said, in a model of understatement.
“He probably should have continued looking for honest work.”
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