WINNIPEG – Police are looking for a man with sticky fingers after two tellers were duped during thefts from two banks in July.
In each of the two elaborate thefts, a man walked to a bank’s front counter with a significant number of $20 and $50 bills, which he asked the teller to exchange for $100 bills.
The teller counted the cash and then counted out the correct number of $100 bills. In each case, the man then counted the $100 bills himself, and asked that the money next be exchanged for U.S. currency.
The teller placed the just-counted $100 bills in her till to do the exchange, but the man then said he’d changed his mind, and asked for his original funds back.
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The teller counted out the original money and handed it back to the man, who left.
Only after the man left did both tellers realize the man had slipped off with some of the $100 bills from the pile counted by both the tellers and the thief.
Police are looking for a five-foot-three man who was estimated to be 20 to 30 years old. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 204-986-2877 or Crime Stoppers at 204-786-8477.
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