Michael Noojin tried to steal money from a Bank of America to pay his rent (Picture: FBI Miami)
A man was arrested after allegedly trying to rob a bank of $650 to pay rent and avoid being on the streets.
Michael Noojin, 67, was taken into custody by the FBI for trying to take the money from a Bank of America in Hollywood, Florida, states a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday.
Noojin, ‘wearing a yellow polo shirt with sail boats and birds printed all over, blue-jeans, white shoes, and sunglasses’, waited his turn for a teller.
A teller told Noojin that she would assist him in a moment and he waited.
When Noojin stepped up and the teller asked for his debit card, he replied: ‘I have a gun, put all the money in the bag’, according to the complaint.
At the same time, Noojin stuffed a brown plastic shopping bag under the protective glass toward the teller.
‘I’m not playing around, I have a gun, put the money in the bag,’ said Noojin.
The teller did not see a gun and started locking her money drawer, according to the complaint.
Two other tellers who overheard began locking their money drawers and an emergency alarm was activated.
As the tellers began to back away in fear, Noojin snatched a bag from under the protective glass and fled the bank from an emergency exit in an unknown direction.
‘Noojin explained his motive for conducting the bank robbery was that he was in desperate need for rent money,’ reads the complaint.
‘It was the last chance for him to obtain $650.00 before he would be homeless.’
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A 67-year-old man was ‘desperate need for rent money’.