5. Robbers Warn Bank via Phone
Albert Baily is the kind of criminal that leaves nothing to chance. On March 23, 2010, he and a juvenile accomplice decided to rob a bank in Fairfield, Connecticut. Everyone knows that an effective bank job is in and out, with no dawdling. To give the bank staff time to package up the cash that Baily and his young ward were going to collect, he called the bank in advance.
Of course, the bank staff was less than compliant. They had the police in the loop and when Baily showed up to collect the $100,000 he had demanded they arrested him. Baily and his accomplice were charged with first-degree robbery and threatening in the first degree, a sentence that carried up to nine years in prison.
