Guy in Santa Mask Robs Memphis Credit Union; Man Dressed as Santa Arrested on Drug Charges
BLOOM: It takes a real grinch to put on a Santa Claus mask and then go rob a bank. And that`s exactly what happened at the Memphis City Employees Credit Union last week. It takes him a couple of seconds to get down to business. You can see the suspect walk up to the teller and offer her a candy cane. He also offers a candy cane to another customer. Oh, gee, what a nice guy, that seems great, right? And then, he comes back to the counter and we see his true grinchy nature shining through. He hands the teller a note and tells her that he`s robbing her. Joining me again, Wendy Patrick, Yodit Tewolde, and Danny Cevallos. All right. Here`s what we know about the suspect. He is a black male, 5`9", 150 pounds. He was wearing that Santa mask, a red shirt, black pants, black shoes, and police are still looking for him. So Danny Cevallos, is it time to say that people just can`t wear masks out in public anymore?</s>DANNY CEVALLOS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Yeah, Lisa, I don`t know where you get your information from, but that`s clearly a white male, white beard, about 300 pounds. The identification is way, way off. If this goes to a lineup, this guy is walking, I can tell you right now. But I agree, Lisa, we live in an era where we need to stop with the Halloween shenanigan and the Santa Claus shenanigan. If you walk into a bank, we should be able to see who you are because, listen, banks get robbed. It`s a scary job.</s>BLOOM: Yeah, absolutely. And you know, Wendy, this is just so wrong. It is so wrong to put on a Santa mask and rob a bank, right? I mean, what about the kids? What about our image of Santa? Is nothing sacred? Can we not have just one nice thing Santa Claus? Should there be some kind of extra punishment for this guy when he gets caught for wearing the Santa mask?</s>PATRICK: You know, Lisa, this thief stole both cash and cheer. The Christmas spirit was just quashed in that bank. And what`s really sad about this scenario is Halloween and Christmas give criminals a license to wear costumes and not be looked at twice. This man took advantage of that opportunity. So absolutely, no doubt it will be used as an aggravant of when, I`m not gonna say if, when we find this thief.</s>BLOOM: An aggravant, an aggravating circumstance. Threw the book at him. And I would say this is something you don`t see every day, but there are actually more Santa Claus crimes than just the one we`re talking about. A guy dressed up as Santa was actually caught with a bunch of drugs. And another crime, he had a truck and he had molly, ecstasy pills, marijuana. He was arrested in Jacksonville, Florida last week. Isaac Geiger was arrested with possession of drugs and intent to sell and resisting arrest. Danny, Danny, what are we gonna do with these guys?</s>CEVALLOS: Look, I don`t know. Delivering presents worldwide I guess is a stressful job. I don`t know why people turn to a life of crime. I don`t what we`re going to do. I mean, we can`t really get rid of the Christmas spirit entirety because of a few bad I guess naughty apples. But look, it`s a problem. You know, grown people, maybe we shouldn`t be in costumes.</s>BLOOM: Listen, it`s tough covering crime stories. They are also heavy and sad. At least, nobody was hurt in either of this just so we can make our corny holiday jokes. Thank you so much. Sharing a snap chat story has a New York cop in hot water. The plot line behind this picture that has a lot of people, especially the family in it, fuming.