a top chef shot dead by police after robbing a bank wearing drag and cartoonish makeup reportedly had a secret heroin addiction cody spafford, 26, held up a wells fargo branch in seattle, washington, last year while wearing a fake nose, a wig, skirt and thick white makeup using a fake gun, he threatened tellers and made off with $90,000 stuffed in a suitcase before crashing his car about a mile away scroll down for video  hold up: cody spafford, a 26 year old sous chef in a prestigious seattle restaurant, held up a wells fargo branch in women's clothes and thick makeup last year  spafford, who abandoned his realistic looking bb gun, but kept hold of an 8 inch knife, was shot seven times in a stand off with police and died at the scene his family in utah, and co workers at the walrus and the carpenter, an upscale oyster bar where he was sous chef, were stunned to learn that the man they knew was behind the april 2014 hold up spafford was also set to take a job at high profile new york restaurant buvette but, according to a long profile of spafford published in the seattle metropolitan magazine, the high adrenaline bank robbery was not the only thing those close to him would never have suspected promising: spafford was due to take up a head chef's job in new york city   but had relapsed into heroin use, according to a new profile of him he is pictured right with an oyster shucking trophy  in the wake of the robbery, police investigators found syringes and a pipe inside his crashed hyundai, which he flipped over in an affluent seattle street before climbing on to a roof of a nearby garage, where police caught up with him an earlier profile in the stranger, an alternative weekly newspaper in seattle, said his housemate monica found evidence of drug use in his room   though she wouldn't expand on what 'drug paraphernalia' was there the metropolitan also reported spafford had been increasingly erratic in the weeks leading up to the robbery the profile said he had started coming to work late, forget to place orders for new oysters, and would wear long sleeved clothes, which would have hidden any signs of drug use crash scene: spafford fled the bank in a hyundai but crashed it after driving around a mile officers found a pipe and syringes in the vehicle  shot dead: spafford was shot seven times by a police officer he was carrying a knife at the time, which is pictured above  an inquest also revealed that he had burned through almost $10,000 of savings in the weeks before he died   and was awaiting a prison sentence for a dui charge from when he visited home in utah even his parents reportedly had no idea he had relapsed into heroin use, which had plagued his youth spafford had reportedly spiraled into addiction as a high school senior back in salt lake city, but kicked the habit before moving to seattle in 2010 for a new start in utah, the drug use led to seven arrests and months in jail   while he even robbed his own mother and forged checks in her name so he could get high, according to the metropolitan but after a rehabilitation program, and a promising career change in seattle's burgeoning oyster bar culture, the addictions of the past was seemingly behind him the magazine hinted that 'the occasional joint' of marijuana was part of the lifestyle at the walrus and the carpenter   but never a hint of hard drugs co owner jeremy price told the metropolitan: 'none of us had experience with someone who was addicted to heroin' spafford was due to leave seattle to take up a head chef's post at a french restaurant in salt lake city   but never made the trip after his fatal run in with police less than a month before his start date
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