This genius had a plan and he stuck to it, only problem was, he executed it back-to-back-to-back. Charles Burnett, 29, robbed the same downtown Sovereign branch on three consecutive days before he was finally busted. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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For many bank tellers, the prospect of a hold up is something you think may happen once in a blue moon. For the tellers of one Manhattan bank, this nightmare scenario happened three days in a row. More than that, it was the same man each time. Though he was caught after his third heist, his total came to over $26,000. The crime spree started at 9:19a.m. Monday morning when Chris Burnett, 29, allegedly pushed his way to the front of a bank teller’s line at a Sovereign Bank branch in the Financial District and handed her a note that read ‘Put money in the bag, I have a gun’. He then raised up a brown paper bag and tapped it on the counter, hinting that he had a gun in the bag that he was ready to use. Burnett walked out with $2,258 that morning, which would end up being his smallest loot of the week. Clearly unsatisfied- and rather unoriginal- Burnett returned to the same branch the next day at 10:54a.m. After approaching one teller, Danielle Stephens, who said she had no money, Burnett went up to another teller. ‘He told the girl next to me ‘I will shoot you in the ****ing face if you don;t give me all your money,’ Ms Stephens said. ‘He walked out with like $14,000,’ she said. Realizing that they had a repeat customer on their hands, the bank put up a security-camera photo of Burnett and released it to police and local newspapers. Burnett, a Teaneck, N.J. resident, was undeterred by his new media presence, however, and decided to make it a hat trick. Just after 9:00a.m. on Wednesday he returned, and returned to his first play by handing a teller a demand note. He cut to the chase on the note this time though, as it read ‘I have a gun put all the money in the bag’.Even though the tellers were used to the routine by this point, they were still completely shocked at his bravado. ‘It was the same dumb ass who hit us yesterday,’ one staffer told The Post. ‘He was huge.’ After Wednesday’s robbery, he walked out of the bank onto Gold Street with $10,002. This time, he didn’t get away scot free though as two passing police officers driving by recognized him from the photo and one officer pursued him.
