According to The Daily Mail,
Benoit Constant, of Maryland, was arrested in Texas during a traffic stop and identified as a suspect in the robbery of a bank in Cornelius, North Carolina, back in December.
Police say Constant, who is black, wore a lifelike mask during the heist that made him look like an elderly white man.
Surveillance video from inside the bank showed a white man in dark sunglasses, a baseball cap and blue gloves pointing a handgun at a bank teller with one hand while holding a bag for the cash in the other.
During the heist, someone also called in a false bomb threat to the Lake Norman YMCA on the other side of town, in what investigators believe was a diversion created by Constant’s accomplice to draw police away from the credit union.
CCTV cameras captured images of the same silver van with a Delaware registration near the targeted bank and the YMCA, which officials later tracked down to Maryland about a week after the robbery.
Constant’s alleged partner in crime, Milandra Constant, was behind the wheel of the vehicle. Inside, police found a lifelike mask resembling the bank robber and the striped bag seen in the surveillance footage, according to WSOC-TV.
Constant was eventually stopped for a traffic violation and gave police a fake name. They ran his tags and saw that he was wanted for robbery in North Carolina.
I definitely do not condone robbing banks, but this mask idea was pretty smart.