Coral Springs, Fl , July 21, 2006:
Two
suspects were arrested after robbing the Regions
Bank located at 2425 University Drive in Coral
Springs this morning ( Friday).
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Aubrey Courtney |
Jerome Ronnie Jones, 22 of Coral Springs, and
Aubrey Twain Courtney, 27,
were arrested
for armed robbery by Coral Springs police after
witnesses said the two robbers walked in the
Regions Bank at 2425 University Dr. at around
10:15 a.m. and ordered everyone to the ground at
gunpoint. Both suspects jumped the counter
and removed an undisclosed amount of cash from
the teller drawers.
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Jerome Jones |
The two then
fled the bank in a silver Nissan Ultima and
drove to the Coral Falls apartment complex at
the 2800 block of NW 91st Ave where
witnesses told officers that the pair got out of
the Ultima and into a silver Chevy TrailBlazer.
Officers saw the two change cars and stopped the
TrailBlazer after which the two suspects jumped
out and ran. Both were taken into custody
without incident after a short foot chase.
Any policemen will tell you that it is
incredibly stupid for anyone to rob a bank for a
few reasons. First, banks really do not keep
that much money in their cashier drawers, and
second, almost 99.999% of bank robbers get
caught and third, you are guaranteed to do ten
years minimum, and if you pulled gun out, that
can increase to a lot more.
This location was a target in at least 3 other
bank robberies since its opening as Capital Bank
in 1995. Union Planters Bank had purchased
Capital Bank in 1997. It was sold to
Regions Bank in 2004. Last year Citibank
up the street and also on University Drive was
robbed as well.
No one in the bank was injured in the robbery
and all of the money that they had taken was
recovered.
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