Robber’s fake limp vanishes during bank heist caught on camera, police say

A antheral who limped into a Louisiana slope with a cane and sprinted retired seconds aboriginal with currency successful manus is wanted by police.

Surveillance video from a Fidelity Bank subdivision successful Slidell, conscionable extracurricular New Orleans, captured the bizarre ruse.

In the video, the antheral hobbles done the doors wearing a cervix brace and clutching a abbreviated cane earlier sliding a enactment to the teller.

Moments later, helium stuffs a stack of currency into his fanny pack, past abruptly ditches the limp and bolts retired the door.

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Police accidental a hunt is underway for a antheral who utilized a ruse, including a fake cane and limp, to rob a bank. (Slidell Police Department)

The robbery happened soon earlier 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, constabulary said. According to the Slidell Police Department, the fishy demanded wealth portion shouting that it was a robbery earlier fleeing connected foot, this clip without immoderate motion of injury.

"The fishy entered the slope appearing to beryllium handicapped, walking with a fake limp, a cane, and a cervix brace," constabulary said successful a Facebook post. "He past fled the scene, without a limp, with an undisclosed magnitude of cash."

A spokesperson for the Slidell Police Department told Fox News Digital the man’s quality instantly raised suspicions among slope employees.

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"He walked successful arsenic a reddish flag, conscionable retired of axenic appearance," the spokesperson said. "Everything helium was dressed in, from the chapeau to the cervix brace, to the cane, to the aggregate layers of clothing, to the look mask. As an worker of a fiscal institution, idiosyncratic comes successful wherever you tin hardly marque retired their individuality — that’s a reddish flag."

A slope robber successful Slidell, Louisiana, utilized a fake limp, cane and cervix brace to disguise his individuality earlier sprinting distant with currency from Fidelity Bank. (Slidell Police Department)

Before unit could process what was happening, the robbery was underway.

"They were taken back, they were shook up. Thankfully, it went the mode it did, helium didn’t origin immoderate harm to anybody," the spokesperson said.

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Police said the fishy sat wrong for respective minutes, waiting for customers to permission earlier making his move.

"He went successful determination and sat astir for a mates of minutes due to the fact that determination were different patrons of the slope present," the spokesperson said. "Once helium was unsocial with the tellers, helium slid a note. The unfortunate didn’t adjacent get a accidental to work it earlier helium started screaming, ‘This is simply a robbery!’ — conscionable similar thing you’d spot successful a movie."

The fishy grabbed the money, snatched backmost the enactment and ran.

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Surveillance video captures the infinitesimal a antheral limps into a slope with cane, robs the teller, past runs retired without fake limp.  (Slidell Police Department)

The spokesperson said that portion slope robberies are progressively rare, this 1 stood retired due to the fact that of the suspect’s elaborate deception.

"We’ve dealt with slope robberies since the opening of time," the spokesperson said. "It’s not excessively communal anymore conscionable due to the fact that of technology, but each present and past you get immoderate bold idiosyncratic who thinks they tin propulsion disconnected a heist. The axenic elaborate crippled program that helium went successful determination with — acting similar helium was crippled, going to that extent, and past conscionable taking the wealth and moving away, virtually nary wounded — was thing else."

The video ends with the antheral sprinting done the parking lot, disappearing from show and the limp wholly gone.

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Officers and K-9 units searched adjacent neighborhoods, but investigators judge the antheral whitethorn person escaped the country successful a vehicle.

The fishy is described arsenic a Black antheral wearing a grey tracksuit, bucket hat, cervix brace, wide fanny battalion and a look mask.

Police are urging anyone who recognizes the man, oregon who whitethorn person captured him connected location information cameras on Choctaw Drive, to interaction the Slidell Police Department astatine 985-643-3131.

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Officials said the fishy remains connected the escaped arsenic investigators analyse caller leads.

"We’re sportfishing done each the evidence," the spokesperson said, "but I’ve been told we’ve yet got our hands connected thing perchance promising."

Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send communicative tips to [email protected].