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‘Smiling suspect’ arrested for Va. bank robbery

Posted at 12:08 PM, Jun 11, 2012
and last updated 2012-06-11 12:08:38-04

SUSSEX COUNTY, Va. (WTVR) – A suspected robber caught on camera smiling at a bank security camera was arrested and has confessed to the crime, Sussex County Sheriff’s Detective D.S. McKenzie told CBS 6.

Sheriff’s Deputies and the U.S. Marshals Task Force arrested Larry Jermaine Jones. of Petersburg, for the May 29 bank robbery in Stony Creek.

Investigators said Jones was smiling at the camera because he had tripped on his way into the bank during the robbery.

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