More to story after arrest of Deputy for bank robbery

"A former Davidson County deputy accused of bank robbery worked security there prior to robbery" on Salisbury Post headline may begin the judgement of this man, but there is so much more to the story.

"Jeffrey Dean Athey, 51, entered the F and M Bank at 418 W. Main St. about 3:35 p.m. on Feb. 6 and showed a Glock 41 semi-automatic handgun. He requested $1,000 and then left the bank."

He is accused of robbing the bank he worked for. Think about that one. Top that off with he only wanted $1,000 and knew exactly what the penalty would be for that. Why would he choose to do it there?

After hearing of the news, Davidson County Sheriff David Grice terminated Athey the same afternoon. He’s worked for the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office for a number of years, left to work for the private military company formerly known as Blackwater, and then returned to the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office.

He not only joined law enforcement, he worked for a defense contractor.

Court documents show Athey was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. He recently married and lived with his wife and her two children.

Was this a scream for help? He had 2 jobs plus a new family. If this was not a man who was willing to risk his life, but change it for the better as well, it would be easy to just pass it off as a good guy gone bad. Taken everything into consideration, now we know there is so much more to this story.

Cocoa bank robber learns don't mess with a Marine

Ex-Marine Fights Off Armed Florida Bank Robber
Brevard Times

COCOA, Florida -- At approximately 1:05 p.m. today, Cocoa Police received a call of an armed robbery at the Wells Fargo bank on US-1 in Cocoa, Florida. Police quickly arrived on scene and were directed by witnesses to where the suspect may have fled. Police set up a perimeter and quickly located the suspect.

According to witnesses' accounts to police, the suspect, 43-year-old Edward Sotelo entered the bank wearing a construction-type hard hat with tape on the front and back, and a surgical mask.

Sotelo allegedly approached the teller window, pointed the gun at the teller and demanded money.

Police say thats when a customer of the bank, at the next window, saw what was happening and began fighting the bank robber. The bank customer is a former Marine and a former member of law enforcement.
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Marine gets bank robber to surrender

Marine veteran helps catch Alaska bank robber
The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Jan 20, 2013

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A 22-year-old man who just finished serving four years in the Marine Corps was able to track down an alleged bank robber and flag down a police cruiser, helping land the suspect in jail.

Merrill Lake was walking by a Key Bank Branch Wednesday when he first noticed a woman banging hysterically on the window. The bank had just been robbed by a hammer-wielding man, The Anchorage Daily News reported Saturday.

“I’m trying to take my background with the military, in whatever way possible, and utilize it with the real world,” he said.
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A bank robber, a hero and a tale of healing

A bank robber, a hero and a tale of healing

OCTOBER 28, 2011

BY DAVID WILLBERG
Cecile Wehrman Krimm wants to know how and why two brothers could become completely different people.

One brother, Jimmy Krimm, became a notorious serial bank robber who stole from at least 35 banks in a 14-year span. He committed suicide near Fortuna, N.D., just hours after he robbed a bank in Williston.

The other brother, H. Rob Krimm, served his country for 20 years through the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Air Force.

Cecile Wehrman Krimm and Rob Krimm were at the Estevan Public Library on October 22 to promote her true crime novel "The Brothers Krimm: The bank robber and the hero." Wehrman Krimm wrote the book; Rob Krimm and his mother, Charlene, contributed to the story.

Wehrman Krimm first learned of the Krimm family on September 14, 2009. A couple hours after she arrived home from work at the Crosby Journal – where she is the editor – she was told by her mother-in-law that a fugitive bank robber was on the run near Wehrman Krimm's farm after the theft in Williston.
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Fort Campbell Soldier Halts Serial Robbers

Fort Campbell Soldier Halts Serial Robbers
August 22, 2011
Army News Service|by Glen Paddie
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky., -- Something as simple as a Soldier cashing a check at a certain bank on a particular day at just the right time helped stop serial robbers causing some Clarksville businesses a lot of grief.

Private 1st Class Preston Clayton, Golf Company, 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, decided that he and his buddy, Spc. Justin Armstrong, Golf Company, 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, wanted to meet their wives for lunch Aug. 9.

So, the two Soldiers agreed to meet their better halves at U.S. Bank on Fort Campbell Boulevard in order for Clayton to cash a check before their meal.
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Fort Campbell Soldier’s quick actions help Police capture Bank Robbers

Fort Campbell Soldier’s quick actions help Police capture Bank Robbers
August 10, 2011

Clarksville, TN – On August 9th, 2011, around 12:45pm, the U.S. Bank, 3301 Fort Campbell Boulvard, was robbed. A Fort Campbell soldier, Preston Clayton, acted and was vital in the rapid capture of the bank robbers. He is a PFC assigned to: G Co 1/320, Fort Campbell, KY.

Preston Clayton was inside of the bank cashing a check when he saw a man with a backpack enter. He then heard the teller say she had been robbed. He saw the man with the backpack leaving and started to run after him.
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Alleged bank robber took cab to bank with friends

Driver 'furious' about use of taxi by alleged bank robber

By Nok-Noi Ricker
BDN Staff

BANGOR, Maine - There was nothing unusual about the three women Ace Taxi owner-operator Yehoshua "Josh" Mizrachi picked up Tuesday morning for a ride to a downtown bank. In fact, the cab driver said the trio were regular customers, and he already had transported them once that morning.

Mizrachi wasn’t even concerned when one of the women, later identified as Matisha Pitts, 25, of Bangor, asked him to park in front of Bangor Savings Bank on State Street while she ran inside at around 9:30 a.m.

"That's not unusual," he said Wednesday morning at a local coffee shop.

He said the first sign of a problem was when "one of her friends gets out of the car and goes and looks for her [Pitts] and when Pitts returns from the bank a minute later she said, 'Let's go.'"

"My little yellow flags went up because she was preparing to leave without her friend," Mizrachi said. "She said, 'Never mind, never mind [about the friend]. Let's go.'"
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PTSD Vet re-jailed

This makes no sense at all. Did they think they were doing his PTSD any good by putting him back in jail again?

Accused bank robber released, re-jailed on same day
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - From prison issue jumpsuit, to street clothes, and back to jumpsuit again, Codie Carver, the man accused of robbing a Sandy bank experienced quite a turnaround on Tuesday.

He says he didn't do it, but needs help dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, from his time in Iraq.

Before police took Carver back to jail, his mom said she was amazed her son was freed.
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