Every reporter has a story on the backburner. One you’ll write when you have more time. Then COVID hits and no editor wants those stories not about COVID.

Ergo, twitter. Here’s my story a man from Virginia and his amazing bank heist.

Our protagonist, Jorge Navarro, works as bank teller. But he’s not happy with that teller life*

*add allegedly throughout this whole thread.

Our guy, Jorge, is a head teller at the United Rubber Worker Community Federal Creidt Union in Danville Virginia. A good solid job.

One day, the branch manager of the credit union wakes up to a text from Jorge.

Jorge is playing for keeps. He stole $600,000 Just wanted to text his boss/branch manager AJ to let him know.

Our guy Jorge has replaced 600,000 dollars with *movie prop* dollars.

But that’s not it. My favorite modern day ‘Catch Me If You Can’ has done it not just in Danville VA but swung by the other bank and did it there too. Snatched 72,000.

Our dude is on camera showing up at 2am at the bank. Takes the cash in 14 minutes flat. That’s Danny Ocean type time.

This is my favorite part. Our guy steals nearly a mil but uses the bank computer. He reserved a room at the Ritz Carlton. He. Placed. An. Order. On. The. Banks. Computer. For. Prop. Money. That. He. Later. Used. To. Text. His. Boss. To. Tell. Him. He. Stole. A. Mil. With. It.

My guy robbed two banks, texted them to tell them he did, and showed up at the Ritz in a black Porsche then headed to Mexico.

Live shot of my guy — Waiting for @NoahShachtman to let me expense my trip to Mexico to figure this out.

I put this complete court record online because if you can convince your editor to write it, you earned it. https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.406486/gov.uscourts.vaed.406486.1.0.pdf