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Article: Manager Defies Advice, Helps Hook 'Fishing Hat Bandit'.(Real Financial Credit Union manager helps in capturing a notorious bank robber)
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- Credit Union Journal
- Article date:
- January 17, 2005
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The manager of Real Financial Credit Union wasn't about to let the Fishing Hat Bandit slip off the hook a second time the elusive serial robber hit his credit union.
So Dean Wickstrom did what all the bank robbery instructors tell you not to do-he set off on foot after the thief, believed to be Minnesota's most prolific bank robber.
"I was just planning to observe him and see where he went. I wasn't trying to tackle him or anything," said Wickstrom, who added he wouldn't recommend his employees take the same course of action. But the 52-year-old credit union manager said he was confident the bandit was unarmed-the Fishing Hat Bandit was never known to ...