If only all crimes were so easy to solve. 
 
 Alvin Lee Neal robbed a downtown San Diego bank, but before he did he inserted his ATM debit card at the teller window — revealing his name and other personal information. 
 
 Neal, 56, was sentenced in San Diego federal court Tuesday to three years and 10 months in prison for the robbery, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. 
 
 Neal entered the Wells Fargo branch on First Avenue on May 13 and approached a teller window, according to his plea agreement. He first swiped his card through the card reader at the window. When the teller asked how he could be helped, Neal replied: “You’re being robbed. Don’t make a mistake.” He then handed the teller a note that had a similar statement. 
 
 When the teller hesitated, Neal said: “You don’t want anyone to get hurt, don’t make a mistake.” 
 
 The teller handed him $565 — in $20s and $1s — and Neal ran out of the bank, pulling a metal cart from the bank behind him, according to the complaint. 
 
 With his debit card information on hand, investigators found his driver’s license and address and discovered Neal is a registered sex offender. He was previously convicted of attempted rape and sexual battery, according to the California Megan’s Law website. 
 
 FBI agents and San Diego police officers set up surveillance at a hostel on 10th Avenue downtown and stopped him as he left the building that afternoon. He agreed to a search of the room he was staying in, which turned up a checkered, double-breasted jacket that the robber appeared to have worn, as well as Neal’s debit card, the complaint states. 
 
 He admitted to robbing the bank when questioned by investigators, according to the complaint. 
 
 As part of his sentence, he was ordered to pay $565 in restitution to the bank. 
 
 kristina.davis@sduniontribune.com 
 
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 SAN DIEGO — A man who was tracked down after he swiped his debit card at a Marina-area bank branch before robbing it was sentenced Tuesday to nearly four years in prison. 
 
 In addition to handing down the 46-month custody term to 56-year-old Alvin Lee Neal, U.S. District Judge Anthony Battaglia ordered him to pay $565 in restitution — the amount the defendant stole from the Wells Fargo branch in the 600 block of First Avenue May 13. 
 
 Neal entered the bank about 10:30 a.m. on May 13 dressed in a black-and- white-checkered coat, walked to a teller’s desk and swiped his Wells Fargo debit card through a customer card reader, causing his account profile to appear on the clerk’s computer screen, according to police and prosecutors. 
 
 In a plea agreement, Neal conceded that he proceeded to tell the employee, “You’re being robbed — don’t make a mistake. … You don’t want anyone to get hurt; don’t make a mistake.” 
 
 Neal also handed the teller a note reading, “You’re being robbed no mistake (sic).” 
 
 Based on the information from Neal’s customer profile, FBI agents and police detectives put his home under surveillance and arrested him. 
 
 The defendant had faced a maximum sentence of 20 years, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego.
– A man entered a San Diego bank on May 13 and demanded money from a teller, saying, "You're being robbed. Don't make a mistake." He's probably kicking himself over his own gaffe, which helped send him to prison for three years and 10 months as part of a plea deal on Tuesday, per Fox 5. Before he'd made his demands, the robber had swiped his debit card at the teller window, which made it easy for police to track him down, reports the San Diego Union Tribune. Alvin Lee Neal, 56, a registered sex offender, later admitted to the robbery and was ordered Tuesday to repay the $565 he was handed by the teller.