
Luke, I am your father. (breaths heavily) Give me your cash (breaths heavily)
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A bank robber dressed as Darth Vader made off with an undetermined amount of cash after pointing a handgun at startled tellers inside a Chase bank branch on
Long Island on Thursday.
Detectives say the robber walked into the bank just before noon wearing the full head mask and a blue cape. The only part of the uniform that was wrong were his camouflage pants. Oh, and he was armed with a handgun, instead of a light saber.
Suffolk
County
police detective Sgt. William Lamb told reporters that one person in the bank at the time didn't think the theft was legit. The customer can be seen on the floor in a surveillance camera photo, moments after the robber shoved him away. The only other description of the suspect was his height: between 6 feet and 6-foot-2. He was last seen running across a parking lot. Mike Fusco, a Chase spokesman, declined to comment other than to say bank officials were cooperating with the investigation.
The holdup was the 15th in
Suffolk
County this year and comes about a week after the so-called “Bouquet Bandit”
held up a bank in
Manhattan. In that bank job, police say Edward Pemberton used a flower bouquet to conceal a note demanding cash during a $440 bank heist July 15. They say he used a potted plant as a similar prop in a holdup at another bank earlier this month. There also have been numerous reports around the country of men dressed as women holding up banks, and a man in
New Hampshire robbed a bank in 2007 wearing tree branches and leaves.