The man police say robbed the US Bank on Broadway earlier this month has been charged with first degree robbery.
Charles Ray Cook was arrested only days after the July 6th hold-up of the branch at the corner of Broadway and E Olive Way when a former co-worker recognized him from surveillance images captured during the late afternoon robbery.
According to court documents, Ray, an Auburn resident who had just quit his job, was found to be hiding out in a Motel 6 in Everett on July 12th after the co-worker had contacted police and identified the 30-year-old four days earlier.
The detective’s report from the SPD-FBI task force details the hold-up:
According to the documents, Ray’s criminal history does not include previous bank robberies. He has a past conviction for fourth degree domestic violence.
Ray is currently in jail on $100,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in court to enter a plea in the first week of August.
Oof.
That’s the hourly rate if his $1,533 heist earns him 25 years in jail.
Ray probably should have kept his day job.
I so wish, like this small-fry thief, that “investors” and “shareholders” who leach and horde the profit of our labor and our tax dollars could be imprisoned with bails that range larger than any money they and their cohorts could ever produce.