The Collar Bomb Heist
I recently finished reading a book called "Criminal Minds" that intertwined the stories told on the television show with true crime stories or simply told the stories of the real criminal mentioned on the show. If you are into the show it is a very good read. Many of the stories, such as those about Ted Bundy, Charles Manson and others I already knew but there were some I had not heard about. This is one of them. On August 28, 2003, around 2:30 pm, Brian Wells entered a bank in Erie Pennsylvania. He had a bomb around his neck and was using something that looked like a cane but turned out to be an altered shotgun. He handed the teller a few notes, one demanding $250,000 (this is the amount I found most often in my research). He only obtained just under $9,000. He was apprehended in a nearby parking lot by the police. He had a note on him that gave him several tasks to do, including the robbery, before the bomb would be detonated. B...