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commenter — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:50:43 +0000

[…] It was an uncommon extortion scheme but bomb threats have played a role in other robberies. The victimization always costs the victim, whether the bomb is fake or real. In a 2021 replay of bank robbery by bomb, Brian Douglas Wells, alleged to be a willing participant, might have agreed to wear a fake bomb. It didn’t matter. Wells lost his life when authorities closed in and the device was remotely detonated. For Causley Edwards who expected to be blown to bits at any moment, the nightmare did not end with the revelation that the bomb was fake. Suspected of being an accomplice, Edwards was suspended from the bank without pay and was reinstated only after a lawsuit that followed the masked man’s confession. That was five years later. The events of that day changed the course of his life. Edwards left the bank to become an attorney. He now works as a business attorney in Arkansas (Ex-banker thought bomb was “real,” Oct. 5, 2021, https://www.mcall.com/2003/09/07/ex-banker-thought-bomb-was-real-it-was-a-case-like-the-one-that-kil…). […]

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