Crime & Safety
Larry Dollar, Alleged Bank Robber, Caught with Loot Hanging Out of His Pockets
He told tellers to "call your mothers" before he left the bank.

A man named Dollar tried to make of with pockets full of dollars at a North Center bank Tuesday morning, authorities said, but his getaway lasted mere minutes.
“Give me $10,000. I have a gun. Don’t move,” Larry Dollar told the tellers after he took a cup of free bank coffee, reports the FBI. “Give me $10,000.”
After a teller handed over some cash, about $1,960, he started to leave but then turned and said, “I’m taking this money and putting it in my pocket. Don’t f—— move and call your mothers.”
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A teller hit the silent alarm and the robber’s description was broadcast to police. About two blocks from the MB Financial Bank at 3940 N. Damen Ave., two Chicago police officers saw the 43-year-old man with money hanging out of his pockets.
Dollar, of the 4500 block of North Hazel Street, faces one felony count of bank robbery, according to the FBI.
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