Bank Robber Finds Poison Pen Pays Off
From Times Wire Reports
The city’s 400th bank robbery of 2003 required no safecracking. No hostage-taking. Not even a drawn gun.
The robber simply walked into an HSBC branch in Manhattan on Tuesday, produced a threatening note demanding money and left with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The unremarkable formula has been the hallmark of a remarkable rise in city bank robberies in 2003: 408 were reported by New Year’s Eve, up 64% from 249 in 2002.
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