Quirky World: Robber’s appetite for audacity takes the biscuit

USA: A man who was arrested for robbing a Pennsylvania bank when he stopped to eat biscuits at a nearby restaurant will spend two to four years in prison.

Quirky World: Robber’s appetite for audacity takes the biscuit

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Shane Lindsey, 32, of Arnold, was sentenced by a Westmoreland County judge after pleading guilty.

Lindsey was arrested about 20 minutes after he robbed the Citizens Bank in New Kensington on January 14. That is when witnesses saw a bald man matching Lindsey’s description run towards a restaurant after the heist. Police knew the business had surveillance video and went inside to view it, hoping for clues as to where the suspect went — only to find Lindsey there eating.

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