He sat at a table eating a sandwich and counting cash. He'd just robbed a bank, CA cops say

Something seemed familiar about the man sitting at a table in a Salinas, California, restaurant eating a sandwich and counting a wad of bills, police said.

Then an off-duty police officer who’d stopped at Ike’s Love & Sandwiches for some food on his way home from work Tuesday night recognized Marcus Trujillo, 47, as the suspect in a bank robbery two hours earlier, reported the Salinas Police Department on Facebook.

Trujillo had robbed a Wells Fargo Bank branch at 3:50 p.m. Monday by handing a teller a note demanding cash and claiming to have a gun, police said. The man ran away with the cash and couldn’t be found.

A later investigation revealed Trujillo had then gone to Mod Pizza, where he offered an employee $100 to let him use the restroom. The employee gave him permission but declined the money, and Trujillo gave him $50 “for being honest,” police said.

He also paid for two pizzas and a drink with a $100 bill before deciding he’d rather have a sandwich and going to Ike’s Love & Sandwiches nearby, police said.

After his arrest, three Wells Fargo employees identified Trujillo as the man who had earlier robbed the bank, according to police.

This story was originally published May 9, 2018 at 2:44 PM with the headline "He sat at a table eating a sandwich and counting cash. He'd just robbed a bank, CA cops say."