An armored car heist, Craigslist, a homeless man, and a yellow innertube

[Chris]

'Inner tube robber' sent up-river for 6 years

MONROE, Wash. -- A man who stole thousands from an armored car in an elaborate scheme and then made his getaway on an innertube down Woods Creek was sentenced to six years in prison Monday.

Anthony Curcio, 28, will also face three years of supervised release.

The FBI says Curcio planned the robbery over a year. On Sept. 30, he sprayed an armored car guard in the face with pepper spray outside a Bank of America branch in Monroe. He made off with $400,000, then hopped on a yellow inner tube and escaped down the creek.

Agents cracked the case when they learned about two weeks before the robbery, a homeless man called 911 to report that he found a can of Mace, a wig and a two-way radio behind a trash bin nearby. When a man came to retrieve the items, the homeless man wrote down the license plate number of his car. The license plate was registered to Curcio's wife.

He was arrested a few days later in a new Range Rover following a shopping spree at an outlet mall.

[thundley4]

He had some decent parts to his plan, but maybe he should have thought about skipping town instead of going on a shopping spree. 

[Flame]

Hope the homeless man got a reward!

[RobJohnson]

 

Only six years in the joint? It would be worth that just to ride the intertube!