He Got Burned by His IRS Protest
A federal judge has ordered a two-year prison term for a man who robbed a bank of $1,500 and then burned the loot to dramatize his fight with the IRS.
Last year, Colin Stuart McCoy, 30, walked into a First Interstate Bank branch office and handed a teller a note demanding money. He then dashed from the bank and set the cash ablaze in a barbecue grill he had set up in the parking lot.
Before leaving, McCoy gave the teller a pamphlet identifying himself and stating that he was staging the robbery to get the IRS into court so he could settle a dispute over unpaid taxes.
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