INDIANAPOLIS — Rob me once, shame on you. Rob me twice, shame on the guy over there who looks just like you, cleverly disguised in a different shirt.
A convenience store clerk in Alamo, Texas, had to be thinking the latter when he was held up by the same crook twice in one day, The Monitor reports.
Police say the criminal creature of habit entered the store a little after midnight and browsed around for a while.
After the other customers had left, he approached the clerk and asked whether his name was Tony. When the clerk said no, the thief pulled a knife on “Not Tony� and demanded cash, cigarettes and a random assortment of items he’d picked out around the store.
He then fled in a car parked out front.
Five hours later, the clerk — who was, in fact, still not Tony — was likely surprised to see the same guy come into the shop again wearing a new outfit.
But this time, he brandished a gun and made off with cartons of cigarettes and more money.
I’ve worked a lot of robberies, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Sgt. Lupita Valdez, an investigator with the Alamo Police Department.
“What he did was he parked his car in the same spot where he did the first time. There was nothing this guy changed except his shirt.”
Images from video surveillance led police to their man, who will be charged with aggravated assault.
“It’s all pretty odd to us,” Valdez said.
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