**UPDATE**
Schenectady Police have arrested and charged 39 year old Victor Mattson of Schenectady in a string of robberies. He has been charged with armed robbery, one count of first-degree robbery with display of a firearm, a felony, and resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, related to one of the robberies. He will most likely be charged in all four of the holdups.
Mattson was arrested yesterday after
I don't know, I haven't robbed anything in my life, but I just don't see how this was a way to get a bunch of money all at once. Though, really when someone goes to rob anything they're probably pretty desperate and will just take what they can get.
I've always thought it was a little sketchy to just have the post office deliver a package to home and just leave that item on a porch, or even in the mail box. Sure, it's illegal to take someones mail and open it, but what is really stopping anyone? Not much.
I guess, if it ain't broke don't fix it?
Or in this case, if it's broke financially and you haven't gotten caught yet, why not?
Well, other than because it's illegal to rob anyone, let alone at gun point, there are plenty of other things you can do that aren't illegal to make money.
It's been buzzing the last couple of days that an Albany cop drew a gun and fired at a bank robbery suspect, in which that suspect had made national news when a local Wal-Mart fired him last year.
Imagine this: You're a cab driver in Albany. You've put in a long, tiring day of driving just about every form of life the lovely capital of New York has to offer. The end of the night gets here and someone robs you for all the money you've taken in for the day.
As you know, Jimmy Fallon attended Saint Rose in Albany several years ago. Jimmy seems proud of his homeland as he mentions it periodically on his successful television program, you may have heard of it... The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon...
A 27-year-old man from Cambridge was has been arrested and sent to the Washington County Jail, for allegedly stealing several coins that were in a collection, and guns.