Sunday, December 4, 2011

Barbourville Police Capture "Bad Hair Bandit"

  • {Barbourville,  Kentucky}...Barbourville Police say that, after almost six months of evading authorities, they've captured the serial bank robber dubbed the "Bad Hair Bandit" who has confessed to seven bank robberies. Police in Kentucky and Tennessee were searching for a bank robber wearing wigs as disguises. He also has been known to wear sunglasses, bands, bracelets and gloves. Police took 30 year old Jason Fox to the Whitley County jail Friday evening after a Barbourville police officer pulled over a vehicle that matched the description of a getaway car seen in a survelliance video taken Thursday night before a robbery at the L&N Federal Credit Union inside Walmart in Williamsburg. Police also arrested and charged Fox's wife, Tosha Fox, with first degree complicity to robbery. The "Bad Hair Bandit" is suspected of robbing the First Volunteer Bank in Jellico, Tennessee on June 9th, and, in Kentucky, a Barbourville bank on June 17th, a London bank on July 15th and a bank in Barbourville again on August 19th.