HE WENT THAT-A-WAY: After police in Loveland, Colo., were alerted to the
description of the getaway car from a bank robbery, Officer Joe Berdin
spotted it. And it was headed directly for the police station. By the
time he got behind it to pull it over, the car had reached the
department's parking lot. Berdin and cover units surrounded the car and
arrested the driver on suspicion of bank robbery. So why was Mark
Valladares, 48, going to the police station? To pay $325 in fines in a
drunk driving case. "He said if he didn't pay them, he was going back
to prison," the detective in the case said. Valladares allegedly didn't
have enough cash to pay the fines, so he robbed the bank to get the
money. (Loveland Reporter-Herald) ...With an excuse like that, they
should have checked to see if he was driving drunk again.
description of the getaway car from a bank robbery, Officer Joe Berdin
spotted it. And it was headed directly for the police station. By the
time he got behind it to pull it over, the car had reached the
department's parking lot. Berdin and cover units surrounded the car and
arrested the driver on suspicion of bank robbery. So why was Mark
Valladares, 48, going to the police station? To pay $325 in fines in a
drunk driving case. "He said if he didn't pay them, he was going back
to prison," the detective in the case said. Valladares allegedly didn't
have enough cash to pay the fines, so he robbed the bank to get the
money. (Loveland Reporter-Herald) ...With an excuse like that, they
should have checked to see if he was driving drunk again.