A 71-year-old commits robbery, despite previously serving 40+ years in jail for robbery
Bruce Edward Bell, 71, has over four decades of prison time under his belt due to robbery convictions. After three years of being free from prison, Bell struck again. Back in December, Bell entered a bank and used his firearm to cause an employee to proceed to a restricted area. The employee was faced with the decision to either open the secured area or to be shot.
From Fox News:
Police say Bell, who was last released from prison in July 2021 and was on supervised release at the time of his most recent arrest, “has four prior bank robbery convictions and has served over 40 years in the Federal Department of Corrections.”
In the December robbery, the LAPD says Bell “entered the location, grabbed an employee and pointed a firearm.
“Bell forced the employee to walk over to a restricted-access door. Bell demanded entry into the secure area and stated he would otherwise shoot the employee,” police added. “Once inside, Bell ordered another employee to fill his bag with cash. Bell fled from the location with over $60,000.00.”
Surveillance footage released by investigators appears to show bank staff escorting Bell behind the counter.
He then unfolds a reusable shopping bag and starts making gestures while wielding what appears to be a handgun.
A drawer near one of the teller’s desks opens, and the suspect can be seen placing items inside the bag for about the next two minutes.
Throughout the incident, the bank staff can also be seen with their hands up.
The suspect then walks away from the bank, and an individual there emerges from hiding underneath a desk.
Fox News has additional information here. This story was also covered by NBC news.
Category: Crime, Stupid Criminals
I thought that name rang a bell
Unpossible. Felons can’t buy guns, gun sales between private citizens are ilegal in California. Therefore there is no way he could have gotten a gun.
IT’S ALSO ILLEGAL to rob a bank, thus that should never have happened.
Funny how criminals determined to commit dangerous felonies are not deterred by gun control laws. Seems like a great many convicted felons have no qualms about illegally possessing firearms. I guess it is because guns are essential tools of their trade.
Criminals determined to commit dangerous felonies are not deterred by criminal laws prohibiting those felonies either.
If something is against the law only criminals will do that thing…right?
So should we just abolish all criminal laws because if something is illegal only criminals we do that thing?
Google “tautology”.
Google “Fraud”.
You really do have the intelligence of a mollusk.🦑
Now Google “contradiction”.
You know that your response supports the liberal position on gun reform, right?
The trope that “gun laws don’t stop criminals from getting guns” is a common argument to claim gun laws are “useless”.
Yet, you don’t see them make the same claim about other laws. Nobody claims “criminal laws are useless because criminal laws don’t stop criminals from committing crimes”…
Because they know that “stopping” crime is not he point of these laws. Reducing crime, deterring crime, and setting the conditions for consequences to crime are the reasons criminal laws exist.
The same for gun laws intended to make it harder for criminals, insane people, domestic abusers, drug users etc to acquire guns. They don’t stop criminals, insane people, drug users, and domestic abusers to get guns but it does reduce the numbers that succeed and increases the consequences of both the risk of attempting to and the possession of those guns.
Gun laws work as well as other criminal laws in that they reduce the total incidents and increase the potential consequences for that crime.
Found or they/them in a gay pride parade.
That does not look anything like a gay pride event.
Too little color, too few smiles, nobody dancing, and not enough skin.
That group looks like a black bloc protests of anarchists, anarcho-communists, and anti globalists.
Those groups are full of shitbags, angsty adults that act like arrested developed teens, and wounded narcissists. Similar to MAGA.
You were spot on until your last line. They’re antifa fags, the kind that you love to hang around. once again, man up and admit it!
Depends on the group,
Some Antifa cells are good people.
Others are shitbags that blame the world for why they personally are failures and want to tear the system down because the “fascist” “globalist” system oppresses people and robs them of opportunity.
There are a lot a good people angry at the system…but some people on the extreme of both ends of the political spectrum are just losers that entirely blame the system for their failures.
That all being said…if I had to ally with a loser I would pick the loser that opposes fascism than the one that has a cultlike admiration of a grasping despot that openly, literally, and explicitly advocates fascist intentions.
“That all being said…if I had to ally with a loser I would pick the loser that opposes fascism than the one that has a cultlike admiration of a grasping despot that openly, literally, and explicitly advocates fascist intentions.”
So you’re saying you don’t support Xiden?
“Some Antifa cells are good people.”
“There were good people on both sides”.
You lost whatever shit you had left when Trump said that. You’re a hypocritical fraud.
You truly believe that antifa is anti fascist.
“if I had to ally with a loser I would pick the loser that opposes fascism than the one that has a cultlike admiration of a grasping despot that openly, literally, and explicitly advocates fascist intentions.”
Your antifa pals ARE the fascists. And you drank the Koolade. And that “grasping despot?” His name is Joe Biden, the second coming of your lord and master Obama.
And yet it is Biden who said he would nuke Americans if they rebelled. If that isn’t fascist I don’t know what is.
I like your AR. Lube it good.
Ooooahhh….I bet it has a non binary trigger
It double feeds on Fridays.
These are your people, your homies, your crew, fascists on parade!
The difference is that the ownership of firearms is directly mentioned and protected in the Constitution, other things that there are laws against are not. But then again, you already knew that, you’re just another anti-gun leftist drone, incapable of rational or independent thought. Every gun law on the books in unconstitutional, you know it, and we know it, but you and those like you ignore it, because it doesn’t fit your narrative (never forget that the first laws limiting gun ownership were those put in place by democrats to prevent newly freed slaves (previously known as democrat property) to own firearms. It always has been, an always will be about control, not preventing crime. If it was actually about crime, Hunter Biden would be in jail for lying on his 4413, and criminals like your antifa buddies, and those of protected shades of melanin would face actual penalties for the crimes they commit, instead of no-cash bail, and slaps on the wrist..
Ok, I’m done talking at someone not bright enough to grasp or admit that he’s wrong.. you go ahead and run your mouth if you want to.
I generally agree that the right to bear arms in the constitution is both an individual and collective right of citizens…
However, the way it is understood in the contemporary political discourse on the right is completely bullshit.
We know what our founders had in mind because we have records of the firearm laws that existed during the first 150 years before gun ownership emerged as a national political football.
Prior to that gun laws were left up to state and local governments. While state and local governments did not ban the ownership of guns the regulation on the possession of guns was far more strict in many jurisdictions than exist today. There were also laws in jurisdictions around the country on the purchase and transport of firearms.
Most Americans, even democrats, recognize the right to bear arms as an individual right, and most Americans oppose completely banning guns.
However, most gun control proposals are not about ownership by law abiding citizens. They are about reducing access to those that have violent history or pose a clear demonstrable risk to society, and closing the loopholes that allow this access despite measures to prevent it.
The biggest problem with firearms in this country is that any moron can own a firearm, and in much of the country much of the time, they can get pretty quickly.
I don’t think it is unreasonable to try to balance the right to bear arms with the right of others to not be shot by a moron.
The first Amendment was seen by our founders as the MOST ESSENTIAL right of citizens. Yet there are plenty of examples of balancing the individual right of free speech with public good. “Fire” in a public theater, “fighting words”, slander and libel, leaking classified information, fraud, false commercial claims, pornography laws etc.
It is perfectly reasonable for citizens to want the 2nd amendment to be balanced against the public good. We literally do it got every other constitutional right..
Shall not be infringed.
You are crazy or really badly informed. Gun legislation after the CW was focused on suppression of blacks. It was a clear violation of their civil rights for 150 years.
One of the reasons the NRA exists
I am well informed about gun laws and their intentions following the civil war.
I am referring to how gun laws were implemented and understood for the first 150 years of our nation. Including the 75+ years before the civil war.
We had restrictions on the possession of firearms from the moment of our founding and continuously to now.
Nobody was making dipshit low information claims about how “shall not be infringed” meant no laws could exist on the possession, handling, brandishing, transport, and transfer of firearms.
Remind me again what were the intentions of the Brits when they marched on Lexington and Concord???
And why was it that Patriots tried to stop them??
Hey Commissar, how about this???
https://victorygirlsblog.com/hunter-biden-leave-the-gun-take-the-cocaine/
ooh yeah, we used to lock up insane people so that the couldn’t hurt people, but fools like you decided that wasn’t fair, and s=hut down all the institutions, turning those people out to live on the streets and prey on the rest of society. You and the left own that shit! man up and admit it!
“The trope that “gun laws don’t stop criminals from getting guns” is a common argument to claim gun laws are “useless”.”
The actual claim, had you given it any thought or read anything outside your liberal bubble, is that unenforced gun laws are useless. Throwing more laws at a problem, while providing the illusion that “we’re doing something about guns”, does exactly zero if we’re not even enforcing current law. What’s the first thing usually dropped in a plea bargain? A gun charge. Creating more unenforced law is a… c’mon now, say it with me… FRAUD.
I agree wholeheartedly that it’s unenforced laws that are useless. The scariest thing about increased gun laws is that they are usually designed to prosecute those who were formerly law-abiding citizens. Also, we have an executive agency (the AFT) that feels it’s the authority on what should be deemed legal, and which regularly colludes with a sister agency (the FIB), along with local and state agencies to entrap would-be innocent Americans. I mean, we could ask Randy Weaver about his situation if he were still around. “Just cut the barrels, Randy, and we’ll get those guns sold. Money in the bank…”
If Louisiana took the same path that some other states recently have, and I failed to register or give up my AR-15, I’d be a felon overnight. If I drive through New Jersey, forgetting I have some loose hollow points in the center console, I’m a criminal, and if I have a 30-round magazine or a pistol grip in California, I’m Satan incarnate.
We see clips of thugs on the streets of Chicago with their Glock “switches”. Why not go after them for illegal machinegun possession? Nah, it’s much easier to make a point if I were arrested after finding a rusty old MP40 in a relative’s attic and reporting it. If I go to the range and my SKS bump fires, a cop next to me might accuse me of illegally modifying it. If I step foot on a military installation with an unregistered Derringer, I’m getting detained, and the gun confiscated. I know from experience that the ignorant and innocent-minded usually get a harsher punishment than the malevolent and purposeful criminal when it comes to gun crimes. Why else would a dumbass 18-year-old (me) get sentenced to a year (mostly probation) for concealing a shotgun I informed the cop about during a routine traffic stop? Yet, kids I knew who fit the narrative were having gun charges tossed aside and put back on the streets immediately…
Bullshit. Your leftwing Soros DA’ s invariably drop or plead out the gun possession charges against the felons. The gun laws against felons are effective if enforced. That was proven in Richmond, VA 30 years ago. Felons caught with a firearm were promptly prosecuted in federal court and sent to prison for ten to fifteen years.
I remember the billboards. Project Exile – Wikipedia
Only if they are actually enforced against criminals.
The California police won’t even come to a bank robbery or arrest the robber unless at least $100,000 is stolen…
This is false.
It annoys me that people on the forum mindlessly upvote dumb shit like that merely because it fits their dumbass narratives about California.
Hell, even the incident you are commenting on involved less than $100,000.
It’s called “sarcasm”. It’s a joke that you failed to understand because you’ve got your head planted firmly in your ass. We don’t need to create “dumbass narratives about California”. Nobody can top your governor in that department. Fraud.
Fornia. UsA bad
yup
Randy…I AM The Liquor!🥃 🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃
At 71 y.o.? Prison is his retirement.
I think the term is “institutionalized” (ht2 “Red”). Having spent most of his life in prison, he knew no other life. Win win for him. If he doesn’t get caught, he could live for awhile on $60K. If he does get caught, he goes back into an environment that he is comfortable in, got 3 hots and a cot.
Would be better all around if we could just pass some common sense gun control laws to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals, then there would be no crime.
This… It’s sad but factual that many people just can’t function outside of an institution. My brother lucked out, getting his Army discharge upgraded to get some VA disability, and never really serving substantial time. My last civilian friend? Not so much. Since age 18 he’s been in and out of jail, and since his late-20s he’s been in prison more often than not. He’s been sitting in a jail for the past five months, and in a few months may be sentenced to more prison time.
It’s either “easy” money or another stint in the lockup. Worst case scenario, someone (civilian or cop) engages him, and he has zero worries left. Well, I guess in this litigious society that could be a win for him, if he were only injured, sued the individual or department, and got a big settlement. “I wuz only tryin’ to feed my grandbabies…”
I have LEO Friends who have told me about arrestees who would sit down in the back of the car for transport and say, “Three hots and a cot.”
Honestly, in some ways it is better retirement than many can be expected to get at this point.
With Xiden and his handlers doing all they can to destroy our economy, you’re not wrong…
“Xiden”…
Biden does not get along with Xi and openly criticizes him, explicitly calls Xi a dictator, and doubled down on it when the press and Chinese officials pushed back.
Biden also has no Chinese bank accounts and does not have any business ties with a China. Hunter had some.
Trump frequently praises Xi. Trump also received millions of dollars directly from a China both before and WHILE he was president, he also held Chinese bank accounts, and his kids have directly business relations with a China and have also received millions.
Also, the economy was substantially worse at the end of Trump’s term than it was when he took office. And his record before was poor as well.
The economy is substantially better at the end of Biden’s first term.
Which is consistent with decades of data showing the economy performing better under democrat presidents.
My TSP account and grocery expenditures say you’re wrong.
Another lie from a compulsive liar.
I will admit that President Trump putting his faith in that incompetent troll Fauci and allowing him to shut down the nation did result in the economy being worse than when he took office. Until the chinese bio-weapon was released and Fauci did his worst, it was far better than when he took office. I don’t have to believe that Trump was perfect (hint, he wasn’t) to know he was far better than his predecessor or successor…
Whose fault is it that many have no retirement plan? Who is responsible for an individual’s retirement plan? Are people entitled to a retirement plan?
Just the gang rape in the shower isn’t so great. But better than what your crew has planned.
Once you are diagnosed with The Monkress it is hard to shake.
Red – lifer in “The Shawshank Redemption”
To put a light spin on this…no exact quotes…..
“Do you feel you’ve been rehabilitated?”
Sit there on the Group W Bench….
(Alice’s Restaurant)
How can you Rehabilitate someone who’s never been habililtated in the first place?
Habilitate and Pent before Rehabilitate and Repent!
Preach it, Brother!
Hallelujah, hossana in the highest!
Go forth and sin no more
That means that you know that you fucked up. Now, don’t keep doing those fucked up things. The Lord forgives, but it’s not a “Get out of jail free” card.
Hell, I could be wrong, but I’ll stand before The Man and answer.
There was a time when I naively believed reform was possible for nearly any criminal. Given enough time, resources, and a pathway to other opportunities etc.
However, I came to realize that people with anti social personalities cannot be “reformed”…at best all you do is make them higher functioning sociopaths or help them to mask it better. At their core they are still predators and still see everyone else as potential prey.
Not every criminal has an anti social personality disorder…but those that do cannot be reformed.
Our prisons should not make people better criminals and should not be teaching sociopaths how to better mask their nature.
The problem is programs that try to reform criminals put most of their efforts in trying to reform people that have anti social personalities because they are the prisoners seen as the most in need of access to criminal reform programs.
All that being said…I don’t know why people are so shocked that a serial bank robber is continuing to rob banks as a septuagenarian. There is nothing labor intensive about being a bank robber and it doesn’t really require high cognitive function.
A lot of criminal and predatory behaviors are completely within the capabilities of senior citizens.
Most politicians are serial grifters, con artists, and criminals yet we see it as completely normal for them to continue their behavior well into their 70s and 80s.
I once thought some could see the light and leave their brainwashed leftist world, but you prove just how addicting being part of that cult is to some.
Just can’t wean them off that teat.
Generally you have to be in the darkness to see the light.
I am not the one hiding in dark echo chambers and shaded safe spaces.
“I am not the one hiding in dark echo chambers and shaded safe spaces.”
Says the leftist/Democrat/socialist who has become an expert in projection, just like he was taught.
(And “Safe Spaces” is a construct people like you
developed, so you fail at this station.)
Congrats. Actually, that is one of the most perceptive comments you have posted here, except for that last sentence, which is an over generalization.
So is Bill Clinton a rapist and pedophile?
IYHO
Yes. Also a sociopath shitbag.
Upvote from me!
Yeah, amazing isn’t it. I had given him that FIRST (ht2 ARL) one myself. I’ll give the seagull this…he does despise the Klitoons as much of the rest of us do. And has stated that on several times.
Ah, why didn’t he stick to making those “SAW” movies? I mean, he must be a millionaire just off those movies alone. Why he robbing banks?
What’s that? Not the same guy?
Why don’t you ass clowns tell me these things????
Gotta go with what you know I guess….