An alert young cop actually caught a bank robber red handed yesterday in Brooklyn. 23-year-old officer Carlos Corporan was heading to work in Williamsburg from Bushwick when he noticed a man who fit the description of a suspect wanted for a bank robbery in Brooklyn Heights. Moving closer he got especially suspicious when he noticed the man's shirt was smoking. more ›

Bank robber Robert Krieg and his 32-year-old accomplice John Gregg rode in cabs to some of the banks they held up, and had drivers run the meter while they made off with the money. Taking cabs allowed them to get around town fast and made for a quick getaway but, at least for Krieg, it ultimately led to arrest after a cabbie commandeered his ID and described him to the cops. more ›

Exploding Dye Pack 1, Kevin McQuade 0: The NY Times has an interesting story about a serial bank robber—later found to be a suspect in six robberies—who tried robbing a Chase on East 79th on Tuesday. However, "a teller saw Mr. McQuade’s hands and his pants stained by the distinctive red dye from an explosive pack that tellers are trained to slip into a bank robber’s money bag. As Mr. McQuade passed a note to her, the teller hit a silent alarm, the police said, and just before handing over a bag of money she slipped in a dye pack of her own." Then, bank employees followed him out and flagged a patrol car, whose officers arrested McQuade who got dyed again. McQuade allegedly robbed three banks on Monday and his previous notes apparently read, "$7,000, no dye pack, don’t press the alarm and no one will get hurt" and "Gimme all the money, no die pack, no games and no one gets hurt." He was charged with four counts of third-degree robbery and two counts of third-degree attempted robbery. more ›

WNBC reports that someone robbed the Chase bank at Columbus and West 72nd Street, only for the red dye pack to explode, "splattering wet money on West 73rd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam in front of 105 West 73d Street." The thief, naturally, fled the scene. How Stuff Works explains that some dye packs are now paper-thin. And it was an exciting time on the Upper West Side: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was getting her nails done just down West 72nd Street at about the same time. A reader who sent Gawker a photo of the Rice-related hubbub said, "We boo'd her pretty soundly." more ›