After fleeing an Upper Darby bank wearing a dreadlock wig and Rastafarian hat on Friday, a robber broke into a nearby home where he stayed for hours and helped himself to the owner's wardrobe, police said.
The robbery occurred about 11 a.m., when a man in his 20s - about 6 feet tall - handed a demand note to a teller at the Alliance Bank, at 69th and Walnut streets, Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said.
With the man adorned in the dreadlock wig and a Rastafarian hat, the female teller smirked, thinking the note was a joke, police said.
But the man's wig wasn't the only dreaded thing he had on him. When the teller smiled at his note, he put his backpack on the counter to let her see a sawed-off shotgun inside, Chitwood said.
"She then gives him some money but he starts screaming 'It ain't enough!' " he said. "So she went to another teller and he got away with an excess of $5,000."
The teller was able to put a dye pack in with the cash. A few hundred dollars of the splattered money, along with the man's wig, hat, shirt, tie and double-barreled, sawed-off shotgun were found in the rear of Marshall Road near Kent, according to police.
Chitwood said that the shotgun had been found "ready to fire" with two rounds inside.
Police initiated a manhunt, but the robber was able to break into the rear of a nearby home.
With the homeowners out, he is believed to have stayed there for a couple of hours, changing into the resident's clothes and throwing his own garments in the trash before fleeing undetected.
The homeowners returned to find that their front door had been barricaded with furniture and bolted shut, Chitwood said. Police found some of the dye-stained money outside the back door.
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