A 53-year-old man is accused of robbing a Las Vegas bank by using an iPad to display demand notes to tellers, according to multiple reports.
Donald Patrick Malone was charged on June 1 with attempted robbery, two counts of burglary of a business and two counts of robbery, according to Clark County court records.
Police said a man tried robbing a Wells Fargo bank on May 29 by handing one of its tellers an iPad which had a prewritten note on it saying, “Give me large bills only, don’t try anything and don’t give any trackers or dye packs,” according to a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police arrest report obtained by KLAS and the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The bank robber ran off once the teller activated a silent alarm as a co-worker approached her station, the arrest report said, according to KLAS.
Man used iPad again to rob a U.S. Bank
The next morning, police said a man showed another prewritten note on an iPad to a teller at a U.S. Bank branch, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, citing the arrest report. The note said, “I am heavily armed, don’t move and don’t be suspicious, and act like nothing is going on,” according to KLAS.
The teller opened the register and handed the robber an envelope containing $941 in cash after reading the iPad, the Las Vegas Review-Journal said, per the arrest report.
Investigators said they connected Malone to both Las Vegas bank, iPad robberies in addition to one in Hermit, California, KLAS reported.
Donald Malone arrested at motel five miles from the U.S. Bank he allegedly robbed
Malone was arrested May 30 at a hotel about five miles from the U.S. Bank he’s accused of robbing, KLAS said.
When officers arrested Malone, he was wearing the same shirt seen on surveillance video from the robbery earlier that day at the U.S. Bank, according to the Las Vegas-based TV station, per the arrest report.
Officers also recovered an iPad during the arrest.
Malone was given a $50,000 bail, but he remains at the Clarke County Detention Center due to his status as a fugitive for his California robbery charge, court records show.
