NEW YORK — A 69-year-old desperado, fresh out of prison after serving 22 years for bank robbery, tried to hold up one of midtown’s busiest banks on Thursday - with a knife.
John Stolarz had been a free man for only one day.
The ex-con was shot in the leg by cops and ended up at Bellevue Hospital, almost certainly looking at a new stretch of prison time. No one else was hurt.
Stolarz, convicted of holding up a string of banks in Louisiana, Nevada, Washington State and Utah - including two on the same day in Salt Lake City on May 2, 1988 - was released from a federal prison in Fairton, N.J., on Wednesday.
He was supposed to go to a half-way house, officials said, but instead he made his way to Manhattan to try a spectacularly stupid heist.
Read more at NYDailyNews.com.