California man robs bank of cash and deposits money at ATM outside, Delaware cops say

A California man robbed a bank of cash and fled, then deposited money in an ATM outside, according to Delaware state police.

“This is a robbery,” he wrote in a note he handed to the bank teller, police said.

McRoberts Williams, 44, was arrested after taking an “undisclosed amount of cash” from the Wells Fargo bank teller on Dec. 11 and fleeing to an ATM outside the building to make a deposit, state police said in a news release the same day.

Williams said he is homeless in California, police told McClatchy News.

After Williams deposited money into the nearby ATM, he “continued to flee the scene” and headed behind a local shopping center, where state troopers found him, police said.

Williams was “taken into custody without incident.”

Authorities charged him with second-degree robbery, a felony, and added he was sent to the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution on a $6,000 cash bond, according to the release.

An inmate search showed he was still in custody as of Dec. 15.

Julia Marnin

McClatchy DC

Julia Marnin covers courts for McClatchy News, writing about criminal and civil affairs, including cases involving policing, corrections, civil liberties, fraud, and abuses of power. As a reporter on McClatchy’s National Real-Time Team, she’s also covered the COVID-19 pandemic and a variety of other topics since joining in 2021, following a fellowship with Newsweek. Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, she was raised in South Jersey and is now based in New York State.