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Article: SoCal Bank Robber Smells Like Dirt
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- AP Online
- Article date:
- June 15, 2007
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ANAHEIM, Calif. - There was the Miami Vice bandit, the Fanny Pack bandit, even the Band-Aid bandit - all named for memorable outfits or unique characteristics that bank tellers recalled after the holdup.
Now police are looking for a robber named for his smell: the "Landscape bandit."
"He smells like dirt - that's what people always remember," said Anaheim police Sgt. Tim Schmidt. "It's not like he hasn't bathed in month. It's just he's been outside working in the dirt."
The man, who wears a wide-brimmed ...