{"id":3522,"date":"2008-06-13T08:34:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T13:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2008-06-13T08:34:55","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T13:34:55","slug":"everything_on_dye_need-to-know_basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/everything_on_dye_need-to-know_basis.html","title":{"rendered":"Everything On Dye Need-To-Know Basis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Either we need to be educated about the purpose of the dye or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06132008\/news\/regionalnews\/robber_is_a_dye_hard_115326.htm\">people really, really just don&#8217;t care to know how you came into possession of all that cash<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>An Upper West Side bank robber &#8212; splattered from head to toe by an exploding dye pack left in his loot bag &#8212; nevertheless managed to hail a cab, buy drugs, rent a hotel room and hire a hooker before being caught, police sources said yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>Maurice Hill, 46, who had allegedly stolen $3,000 from the Apple Bank at West 73rd Street and Broadway on Tuesday, was arrested &#8212; still covered in red dye &#8212; the next morning at a Bronx motel in the company of a prostitute, police sources said. <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>After Tuesday&#8217;s heist, an ink-stained Hill shelled out dye-covered cash for a cab ride to 116th Street, where he bought crack and got high, police sources said. <\/p>\n<p>After several hours, he hopped another cab to the Pelham Garden Motel, where he paid for a $70 room with the stained cash, police sources said. The next morning, Hill got a drink from a nearby diner, where someone called Crime Stoppers.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Either we need to be educated about the purpose of the dye or people really, really just don&#8217;t care to know how you came into possession of all that cash: An Upper West Side bank robber &#8212; splattered from head to toe by an exploding dye pack left in his loot bag &#8212; nevertheless managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}