ATTEMPTED ATTEMPT
NEWSCLEVELAND.COM
David Lumpkin planned to withdraw money Tuesday from Huntington Bank on Turney Road in Garfield Heights.
The 39-year-old even used a deposit slip from his wife's checkbook to write a note for the teller, saying: "This is a robury. Give me all the money in both drawers. No one will get hurt!!!"
But the would-be robber stood in the doorway of the bank and fidgeted in his coat. Lumpkin alerted bank tellers to his scheme by wearing a blazer, sunglasses, baseball hat, oversized bag, and a long fake beard.
He apparently got cold feet and left after a bank teller made eye contact with him, a police report said.
A bystander had watched Lumpkin act suspiciously at a National City Bank and wrote down the license plate of the Ford Explorer he drove.
The man stopped a Garfield Heights police officer outside the Huntington branch and gave him the license plate number.
The officer arrested Lumpkin for driving a stolen vehicle.
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