RENO, Nev. (AP) – FBI agents investigating an armed robbery at a Reno bank figured they had their man when they found the 76-year-old suspect hours later eating lunch at a nearby casino and asked him what he did for a living.
“I used to rob banks,” Tommy Ray McAdoo answered, according to the federal criminal complaint.
McAdoo, who has been in and out of prison since the mid-1960s, said he recently moved into the local homeless shelter because he couldn’t afford to pay his monthly rent.
Prosecutors say he made off with $2,731 in a paper grocery sack Nov. 9 from a bank across the street from the federal courthouse where he’s scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing Thursday afternoon. He’s charged with bank robbery with the use of a dangerous weapon – a large steak knife.
McAdoo has been convicted of at least five different bank robbery charges in a criminal history dating to 1964.