Edgewater man charged in Port Orange bank robbery after turning himself in by phone 20 minutes later
Posted Tue, 2009-09-29 21:05
CRIME REPORT
Courtesy photo/jail mug. Tony Max Olea, 42, of Edgewater, was charged with robbing a bank in Port Orange after quickly turning himself in early Monday morning.
PORT ORANGE -- A 42-year-old Edgewater man turned himself in shortly after robbing a bank early Monday, Port Orange police said.
Tony Max Olea was subsequently charged with bank robbery, having essentially called in his own arrest by dialing 9-1-1 .
Olea made the call at 10:50 a.m., 20 minutes after holding up the Colonial Bank at Village Trail and Nova Road. The robber did not display a note, but handed the teller a note implying he was and demanded cash. According to the police report, the robber told the teller he was "desperate."
What the robber didn't know was that a dye pack was thrown in with the loot and exploded shortly after he left the bank. It was at that point that he made the phone call to turn himself in, police said.
The robber made the call from a gas station on State Road 44 and Interstate 95 in New Smyrna Beach and was still on the phone with police when other Port Orange cops and Volusia Sheriff's deputies responded to the scene.
Olea was arrested on the spot and transported to the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach where he was being held on $20,000 bail.
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put him in jail
put him in jail
Finally
Something tells me that the NSB police department is celebrating today. The residents of 7th ave (where he lived until last weekend) say good riddance.
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