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.
