Starting in February and continuing for the next month or so, the 26-year-old Charlotte man targeted three city banks, the FBI claims.
In each incident, Prater was either wearing a GPS device or unknowingly carrying one. Not surprisingly, his attempted escapes on foot never got very far.
On Feb. 8, a man entered the Wells Fargo branch on South Tryon Street in Steele Creek, then passed a note to a teller and manager. “Give me money and no one gets hurt. Hurry,” it read. Two weeks later, on Feb. 23, Prater was released from the county jail and ordered by a judge to wear a CMPD ankle monitor. The FBI says a robbery suspect was wearing the same device a week later when he walked into a Bank of America branch on Beatties Ford Road, just north of uptown.
According to the monitoring device, Prater was in the Bank of America branch at the time of the robbery. When police arrived at his home, he was still wearing the red shirt bank witnesses had included in their descriptions of the robber. A search of Prater’s pants revealed $6,535 in cash. Suitably chastened, Prater waited an entire day before entering the U.S. Bank branch on South Tryon Street in uptown, the affidavit claims. He again passed a familiar note. “Give me all of your cash and nobody gets hurt, please hurry,” it read.
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