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Police nab suspect in bank deposit box scamBy Times staff writer
© St. Petersburg Times, TAMPA -- The sign outside the Bank of America building told customers that the night deposit drawer was out of service and to use the alternate box provided. But that box was actually an overnight mail bin stripped of its identifying stickers and placed outside the bank by a would-be thief sometime between Friday and Sunday, police say. Tampa police were summoned to the bank at 3439 W Hillsborough Ave. by a suspicious Little Caesars Pizza restaurant manager shortly before 4 p.m. Sunday "He figures, "Hey, this doesn't look right,"' Cpl. Barry Moscowitz said. Bank management was summoned and recovered about $35,000 deposited in the phony bin, though police aren't sure if earlier deposits were made and stolen. The deposit bags were replaced with dummies filled with fake money and undercover officers with the Tampa Police Street Anti-Crime Squad set up surveillance. About 7 p.m. Sunday, police say Leroy Clark Jr., 29, of 15827 Glenarm Drive, arrived to pick up the loot, wearing a ski mask. He was arrested with the fake money, the mask and a 9-mm handgun in a nearby apartment complex, after a foot chase. Clark was being held without bail late Monday at the Orient Road Jail on charges of grand theft, carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony, obstructing arrest and escape from police custody.
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