From CityLab:
A Surprising Number of Bank Robbers Use Mass Transit for Their ‘Getaway’
In the modern city, criminality meets multimodality.
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If headlines are any indicator, 2012 was a banner year for transit-riding-bank robbers. A man (allegedly) held up a bank in Cambridge, Massachusetts, only to be caught on an MBTA bus after the teller slipped a GPS device into the bag. Meanwhile a metro Boston woman (allegedly) hit a series of banks, taking the bus from one heist to the next. A man was stopped on the D.C. Metro after (allegedly) robbing a bank in Washington, and the same thing happened to a Portland bank robber who boarded the MAX light rail system right after his (alleged) crime.
The trend seemed to pick up after the market crash.
But did they all cough up for bas fare?
Hmmm. Wonder if they all paid for their bus tickets.