LAS VEGAS ( KLAS ) — A man accused of attempting to rob a bank by claiming to have a bomb said he “couldn’t be charged with a crime for just joking around,” Las Vegas Metro police said.
Wayne Holland, 42, faces several charges including attempted robbery and communicating a bomb threat after police said he entered a bank and said he had a bomb.
On Tuesday, Feb. 6 at around 4 p.m., a man entered the bank in the 4700 block of South Eastern Avenue. Security immediately approached him, saying he looked “disheveled” and carried a backpack, according to an arrest report.
The man, later identified as Holland, told security he was there to get money from his card so security allowed him to go to a teller. The teller said Holland was “extremely suspicious and fidgety.”
The teller told police Holland said he needed a cash advance from his EBT card, which the teller explained he could not do. Holland then asked for a piece of paper and “quickly began to scribble something down,” the report stated.