http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2049211
Red Rountree had been out of prison only 13 months and was up to his old tricks, the Houston Chronicle reports. He walked into an Abilene bank this week, handed a clerk a handwritten note that said “ROBBERY,” and assured her that it meant just that. An hour later, after a change of clothes, he was tooling down U.S. 84, with $2,000 in his pocket, when the cops pulled him over.
Now, he could go to a federal penitentiary for the rest of his life, which could be a short sentence. J.L. Hunter Rountree, a former Houston industrialist turned old hippie and bank robber, will be 92 in December. “I don’t recall us arresting a person this old,” said Sgt. Mike Perry, an Abilene detective. “He didn’t seem to have any difficulty recalling what he had done.”
The Chronicle profiles a man who turned to crime in his old age. Rountree had earlier told the Orlando Sentinel, “What does a 90-year-old man do?,” he asked. “I might rob another bank. I’m not saying I will or I won’t. But, hey, I might need to.”
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