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In London, England while a bank was being robbed, an alert bank employee got the number of the license on the robber's car. It was a Hertz rental car. Police, assuming it was rented with stolen identification, found the car had been rented using an American driver's license, and an address of a hotel. When police went to the hotel to see if the man had reported stolen identification, they learned he had just checked out and was on his way to the airport.
On their way to the airport, officers checked the name with the FBI in the U.S. Seems the identification was good, not stolen, and the man was wanted for a string of bank robberies in the United States! He had used his own name to rent the car and at the hotel. Police arrested him before he boarded the plane, and recovered the $35,000 he had just stolen - it was in his luggage, still in English five pound notes.
Copyright © 2005 Bankers' Hotline. Originally appeared in Bankers' Hotline, Vol. 15, No. 3, 4/05
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