Joe Loya

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.

Oh, he might be Indian.

And the reason every few of them said Mexican is because they said, oh, no, he wasn't Mexican.

He didn't have an accent.

Oh.

They would say he didn't have tattoos on his hands or his neck.

They were so used to being robbed by gangbanging drug addicts that I did not fit that profile at all.

So when I walk in with my glasses and my dark hair, I was black hair at the time, really thick black hair.

really dark skin like right now you can't tell but i'm a mexican from northern mexico and when we get the sun on us i get almost black like i get dark brown right so they could be confused for calling me a pakistani or indian sure but what the f i should not be excused for is saying oh did you say pakistani and indian okay well we're gonna go to lebanon right like that's i'm still like connected to beirut i'm still waiting yeah no just 80s ignorant shit right there that's how i become the