Wednesday, March 16, 2016

#Arrested: Suspected robber used hashtags to demand money from bank tellers

Washington Post: The notes passed to the bank tellers were clear, police said. The man on the other side of the counter demanded money, and each message ended with an unusual twist: “#nopolice,” “#becarefull,” or “#Afterwork?”
It was a calling card left at a series of robberies that investigators eventually dubbed the “Hashtag String.”
The chain of bank heists came to a close Thursday, police said, when the man police were looking for unwittingly parked the suspected getaway car next to a detective investigating the case.
“Not only do we have an unusual end to a string of bank robberies,” said Prince George’s County Police spokeswoman Julie Parker, “this is the first time that we know of that hashtags were used to rob a bank.”

2 comments:

ampersand said...

#I have a gub.

AllenS said...

I had to finally look up what hashtag meant.