Bank robber with a conscience turns himself in

[Robbien]

Source: Star Banner


Hurst told Ocala Police Detective Stephen Thibodeau that he woke up, grabbed his bookbag and walked from his residence at the Silver Springs RV Park off East State Road 40 until he was tired.

The 33-year-old paid his fare and boarded a bus, getting off near Watula Avenue. He walked to the Marion County Courthouse, thinking he had finally reached the Marion County Jail. After being told, he wasn't at the jail, the Florida native asked for and received direction to that facility.

Instead of boarding another bus, Hurst walked from the courthouse to the jail - roughly five miles - in the blazing morning sun.

. . .

Detectives Stephen Thibodeau and Wayne Greene went to the jail and saw Hurst sitting next to the chain-link fence by the intake area.

A corrections officer told the detectives that Hurst said he robbed the bank and “wanted to make it right.”

Read more: http://www.ocala.com/article/20100804/ARTICLES/8041001/1001/NEWS01?Title=Man-turns-himself-in-for-bank-robbery

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He got a little less than $4 grand. He told the cops he and his roommate were unemployed. He paid back rent and utilities, and purchased food. There was a little more than $200 left which he turned over to the cops.

Good people getting desperate. A sign of the times?

[Turbineguy]

1. I'd like to see

a Bankster do that!

[no limit]

2. He will spend probably atleast a decade behind bars since it was armed robbery

and frankly he probably should.

[Robbien]

4. If the guy was smart he would enter into negotiations with the Feds

and settle. Pay a fine of 1% of the take. No one is at fault and no criminal charges filed.

That's the way the big boys do it.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Robbien.