Joe Loya

I try to be the first guy in.

Several times I was there with a couple other people when they were unlocking the bank.

I was one of the guys there.

He let everyone in.

I said, oh, can I see you when you close it?

He closed the door and I robbed him right there.

Like, take me to the vault.

So, like, it went in the morning because what happens is I knew somebody in prison who went to go rob a bank in the afternoon.

It had been robbed in the morning.

The FBI was already there.

They arrested him on the spot.

So I'm like, yeah, that's not going to happen to me.

I was eventually arrested, and they got me for, at that point, 16 banks, and they're counting, right?

They arrest me.

I go to court two days later for arraignment, and they're like, we don't know who he is.

He's the Beirut bandit, and here's 16 pictures of him, and these are 16 photos, and we're still counting, Your Honor.

I was a Beirut bandit because, get this, when I would go into these banks to rob them, the police would come and say, you know, what do you look like?

Oh, he looked Indian.

He looked Pakistani.

Oh, he's Pakistani.