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TexasTowelie

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Wed Nov 14, 2018, 05:30 AM Nov 2018

He owed storage rent, so he robbed a bank of $9,250 wearing a Hawaiian shirt

FORT WORTH -- A man who stole $9,250 from a Richland Hills Wells Fargo bank to pay storage rent has pleaded guilty to the August holdup.

Ronald Lynn Thomas, 59, of Haltom City, entered his plea last week in federal court on the charge of bank robbery.

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At about 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 21, Thomas who wore a {pink} Hawaiian shirt walked into the Wells Fargo Bank, 6964 Boulevard 26 in Richland Hills, and handed a teller a note which said, “Give me all the money or it’s going to get ugly.”

The teller handed him $9,250 and he fled on a lime bicycle.

Read more: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/northeast-tarrant/article221503625.html

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