Financial institution Robber Makes use of Uber to Escape After Heist

A person in Michigan was caught fairly rattling rapidly final week after allegedly committing a financial institution theft resulting from utilizing the Uber app to name up a get away driver.

Huntington Financial institution on Greenfield Highway within the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Michigan, was robbed on November 16, in response to CBS Detroit. The suspect left the scene of the theft apparently in an Uber driver’s automobile. The unwitting getaway driver was pulled over by police after they’d dropped off their fare on an eastbound ramp to I-696. The motive force then led police to the house complicated the place they’d dropped theft suspect Jason Gregory Christmas. From CBS:

Police realized the driving force labored for Uber and had dropped off the suspect at The Heights of Southfield Residences.

Investigators used data from the driving force and financial institution workers to determine the suspect as 41-year-old Jason Gregory Christmas. Police decided Christmas’ precise deal with on the house and started conducting surveillance.

Christmas was seen strolling on the property and was instantly arrested by police. Police say he was carrying the identical clothes used within the financial institution theft, and was carrying a number of hundred {dollars} taken from the financial institution.

Pink stains from the theft had been allegedly discovered on Christmas’ clothes and extra stained cash was discovered inside his house, together with the word Christmas’ allegedly handed to financial institution tellers. Undecided why he apparently held on to that, perhaps one thing for the scrapbook? It’s going to look good hodge-podged subsequent to his newest consumption picture and arraignment paperwork.

Christmas will not be taking a look at a really joyful holidays—he’s at the moment sitting in Southfield Metropolis Jail on a $500,000 bond. I’ve received hometown pleasure however man, if Michigan isn’t the Florida of the midwest. It jogs my memory of final yr when one other son of Southfield dedicated probably the most hilarious theft of a $250,000 Bentley and was swiftly caught trigger, you understand, he was driving a Bentley.

It’s fairly harmful on the market for Uber drivers as properly. One driver shot and killed a person throughout a theft try, although each driver and fare-paying passenger had been unhurt. As a rule, nevertheless, Uber drivers are the victims of crime somewhat than unwitting accomplices. Uber reported hundreds of sexual assaults and even a couple of murders of its drivers in 2019.