That guy SPD busted for the New Year’s bank robbery on Broadway? He might need some more serious help. SPD says they’ve picked him up again for this downtown bank (non)-robbery:
A bank robber arrested last month after he was found pleasuring himself in the doorway of a Capitol Hill car dealership is back in jail after he walked away from work release Thursday morning and tried to rob another bank.
Around 9:20 Thursday morning, the 45-year-old suspect walked into the Key Bank near 2nd Ave. and Columbia St., threatened a clerk, and fled without taking any cash.
After SPD detectives released surveillance pictures of the suspect, several Department of Corrections officers identified him as a 45-year-old robber arrested just last month for another bank heist on New Year’s Eve. In that case, the 45-year-old man robbed a Capitol Hill bank and was arrested one day later, when officers caught him “playing with himself” in the doorway of a car dealership.
After the man was jailed for the New Year’s Eve robbery, he became part of a work release program, allowing him to check out of the King County Jail during the day for work, and return at night. On Thursday, the 45-year-old man checked himself out of jail around 8:30 am, just 50 minutes before he tried to rob the downtown bank.
The man’s time on the lam didn’t last long, however. Patrol officers picked him up and booked him back into jail Thursday evening.
Isn’t bank robbery a felony? Isn’t it a federal crime? It seems that he was being ‘let out’ for work release before his trial. I thought work release was for people who were already convicted or plead guilty to their charges. If this guy was arrested in January, I doubt that he has already had his trial. It seems odd that they would let him out and that he has a job. I guess odd but less so that he would rob another bank while on work release from jail for bank robbery.
If he was being kept in jail prior to trial, unless it was because he couldn’t make bail, then he must have been considered to be high-risk for flight or re-offending. So why was he in a work-release program?
Hopefully he will stay in jail 24/7 this time around.
I think it depends on if you’re armed or not. If it’s not armed robbery I think it’s a lot less serious.
Since he’s on work release, he may have pled to reduced charges, and then it’s possible to get out pretty quick with work release.
This is a second robbery offense. He probably won’t get off so easy this time.
They didn’t do him or the taxpayers any favors by letting him get work-release so quickly. That’s two strikes in 3 months.
This is non-rational behavior… it’s clear that either a substance abuse or mental problem is increasing his propensity to reoffend.
This dangerous criminal should be in jail where he will get the finest metal health and addiction treatment our great nation has to offer.