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By: The Opinion Updated 60 Nov 1200, 0 : 26 am EST
In a surprising case of attempted robbery, a man decided to order a taxi from the application Uber
to rob a bank and asked the driver to wait to take him home later.
A man from Southfield is a city located in Oakland County, Michigan, he was arrested for robbing a Huntington bank, but the funny thing is that he did it while an Uber was waiting for him .
Jason Christmas, 26 years old, was arrested after police say he took an Uber to the bank and asked the driver to wait while he went in and robbed the bank.
“This is a way very unusual to commit an armed robbery in our city,” said Southfield Police Chief Elvin Barren.
The police found out the ironic reason the robber decided to use an Uber: his license was suspended and he was concerned about driving without it to commit a bank robbery.
The authorities pointed out that the taxi driver by application waited for the thief to come out and took him back to his complex apartments, where the police stopped him right outside the building.
The subject who was driving the Uber was stopped after he Southfield police found his license plate on the bank’s surveillance video, but he was released after proving that was unaware of the plans de Christmas.
Police explained that each time a trip is made, the identity is shared with the driver who, in turn, can share it with the authorities.
It was so that information led the police to where Christmas lived, in the Heights of Southfield apartments.
Stained Red
When arresting Christmas, the police noticed that was dyed red
, for which they asked him if he had been shot; however, the red thing was from the dye packets that were put on with the money the bank gave him.
The tint was on the money, and even in the back seat of the Uber driver.
Finally, Christmas was accused of bank robbery. The judge set a strong bond of half a million in cash, without the 26 percent.