Coffee break turns into a robbery bust

[SON OF HARRY HOPE]

PITTSBURGH (UPI) -- A cross-dressing bank robber in Pittsburgh was
caught when two coffee shop customers who had just gone to the gym
tackled him in an alley.

Customers Chris Duggan and Dwain Southerland had noticed a man who
police later identified as 28-year-old Chris Hoffman, walking toward
the Fifth Third Bank, two doors from where they were relaxing after a
workout, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

The man was wearing a blond wig, makeup, pantyhose, a brown skirt,
white blouse, green sunglasses and white sneakers.

As they saw this, Southerland even quipped to Duggan he hoped the man
was not going to rob a bank.

Moments later, when Hoffman walked back past the coffee shop, someone
yelled: "Stop him! He just robbed the bank!"

The men sprang into action, tackling Hoffman in an alley. Police
arrested the suspect.

Besides charges of robbery and resisting arrest, Hoffman faces federal
escape charges in an unrelated incident -- and is also a suspect in a
2001 attempted bank robbery in Pittsburgh.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion...
in private self-defense.

---John Adams (1735-1826) US President (2)

[Joe S.]

Post by SON OF HARRY HOPE
PITTSBURGH (UPI) -- A cross-dressing bank robber in Pittsburgh was
caught when two coffee shop customers who had just gone to the gym
tackled him in an alley.
Customers Chris Duggan and Dwain Southerland had noticed a man who
police later identified as 28-year-old Chris Hoffman, walking toward
the Fifth Third Bank, two doors from where they were relaxing after a
workout, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
The man was wearing a blond wig, makeup, pantyhose, a brown skirt,
white blouse, green sunglasses and white sneakers.
As they saw this, Southerland even quipped to Duggan he hoped the man
was not going to rob a bank.
Moments later, when Hoffman walked back past the coffee shop, someone
yelled: "Stop him! He just robbed the bank!"
The men sprang into action, tackling Hoffman in an alley. Police
arrested the suspect.
Besides charges of robbery and resisting arrest, Hoffman faces federal
escape charges in an unrelated incident -- and is also a suspect in a
2001 attempted bank robbery in Pittsburgh.
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion...
in private self-defense.
---John Adams (1735-1826) US President (2)

Where does it say the two guys who stopped the robber were armed with
anything but their bare hands?