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Man Tricks Woman He Met On Dating App Into Helping Him Rob A Bank


Christopher Castillo made a woman he met on a dating app into into an unwilling accomplice in a robbery after he tricked her into driving the getaway car.

A man named Christopher Castillo used a dating app to assist him in carrying out a bank robbery, as he got one of his matches to unknowingly drive the getaway car after she innocently took him to the bank in question. As The Sun Chronicle reports, back in 2016, Castillo matched with a woman named Shelby Sampson on an unnamed dating app. For their first date, she picked him up from his parents’ house in Chepachet, Rhode Island and drove 30 minutes toward North Attleborough, Massachusetts. As they entered her neighbourhood of Attleboro Falls, Castillo asked Sampson to pull the car over to Bristol County Savings Bank, where he got out. Sampson didn’t realize what was happening until Castillo ran back to the vehicle sweating, carrying a hat, sunglasses, a gun and $1,000 and told Sampson to “F*cking go!” She initially sped away from the scene, but pulled over and stepped away from her vehicle when she noticed police trailing behind them.

Castillo was sentenced to three years in state prison after pleading guilty to armed robbery earlier this week. He was also sentenced to an additional two years in jail for assaulting the three police officers who arrested him. During the incident, when police pulled him out of the car, Castillo struggled with police officers and even spit at them. Sampson was initially charged with being an accessory after the fact, but the prosecution dropped the charges after she explained the situation. Hopefully she has better luck with dating apps next time.

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Maryland Police Looking For Man Who Robbed Bank Wearing Blackface

Authorities are searching for a man in blackface who robbed a Maryland bank.

According to reports, police are looking for a white man who robbed a bank in Maryland on Tuesday wearing blackface. The suspect robbed a PNC bank in Perryville, Maryland, a town about 40 miles northeast of Baltimore, near the Delaware and Pennsylvania borders.

Shortly after the robbery, the police department took to Facebook to ask the public for help in identifying the man. "We are seeking the public’s help in identifying the below pictured subject," Perryville police wrote sharing the pic.

Police described the suspect as "a white male, with paint on his face," who seemed to be in his late 20s to early 30s. Authorities did not specify how much money he may have been able to steal from the bank.

After authorities went public with the post, people started to write so many racist comments about the robbery that the department ended up deleting the post. "In lieu of our recent post and its many comments (some being derogatory and/or vulgar), we have elected to take down/remove the post," the Perryville Police Department wrote on Facebook. "We do appreciate those who had contributed any information in regards to the bank robbery. We ask that in future posts regarding a crime that we limit any commenting to relevance of the incident and details."