Oldest convicted bank robber

The world’s oldest convicted bank robber is J.L. Hunter Rountree (b. 1911, USA) who was sentenced to 151 months in prison on 23 January 2004 at the age of 92 after he pleaded guilty to robbing $1,999 (£1,243.08) from a bank in Texas, USA on 12 August 2003. He was not armed. On entering the bank, Rountree was carrying two envelopes, one of which had the word "Robbery" written on it. He proceeded to the counter and handed the bank clerk both envelopes. After asking Rountree twice if he was joking, the bank clerk put the money into the envelope and Rountree then made off in a 1996 Buick sedan. According to the police, a bank employee noted the license plate of the vehicle and Rountree was pulled over by police on a highway about 20 miles (32 km) from the crime scene, 30 minutes after the robbery. Rountree, nicknamed Red, said he robbed his first bank when he was around 80 because he wanted revenge on banks for sending him into a financial crisis. He was also caught holding up a bank in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1998 when he was 87, and given three years' probation. In a prison interview with the Orlando Sentinel in 2001, Rountree said, "A Corpus Christi (Texas) bank that I'd done business with had forced me into bankruptcy. I have never liked banks since," he told the paper. "I decided I would get even. And I have." He also told the paper that prison food was better than what was served at some nursing homes