A man who had told police he wanted to go to prison was arrested Friday on charges he flashed a gun to a teller at an Iowa City bank and told the teller “he would not go home tonight” if he didn’t hand over cash, authorities said.
A man identified in records as Nickoles Julio Deherrera, 39, from Boulder, Colorado, was being held in the Johnson County Jail on a first-degree robbery charge.
Nickoles J. Deherrera (Johnson County Jail)
Iowa City police responded at 2:19 p.m. Friday to a robbery at Wells Fargo Bank, 103 E. College St. According to a criminal complaint, the robber handed a note to a teller demanding cash and threatening the teller -- pulling up his shirt to reveal “the wooden handle of a replica black power military style revolver.” The teller handed the robber about $1,000 in cash.
Police said the suspect was captured before and after the robbery on surveillance cameras, and they quickly arrested Deherrera at the Iowa City Public Library.
Court records show that, just a day before the bank robbery, Deherrera was released Thursday by a judge on his own recognizance after Iowa City police say they caught him stealing a tent and a bicycle from a Walmart on Wednesday.
“The defendant told an ICPD uniformed officer in the days prior to the robbery, he wanted to commit a bank robbery so he could go to prison,” according to the criminal complaint for the bank robbery.
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A man identified in records as Nickoles Julio Deherrera, 39, from Boulder, Colorado, was being held in the Johnson County Jail on a first-degree robbery charge.
Iowa City police responded at 2:19 p.m. Friday to a robbery at Wells Fargo Bank, 103 E. College St. According to a criminal complaint, the robber handed a note to a teller demanding cash and threatening the teller -- pulling up his shirt to reveal “the wooden handle of a replica black power military style revolver.” The teller handed the robber about $1,000 in cash.
Police said the suspect was captured before and after the robbery on surveillance cameras, and they quickly arrested Deherrera at the Iowa City Public Library.
Court records show that, just a day before the bank robbery, Deherrera was released Thursday by a judge on his own recognizance after Iowa City police say they caught him stealing a tent and a bicycle from a Walmart on Wednesday.
“The defendant told an ICPD uniformed officer in the days prior to the robbery, he wanted to commit a bank robbery so he could go to prison,” according to the criminal complaint for the bank robbery.
Suspect quickly arrested after Iowa City bank robbery
A man who had told police he wanted to go to prison was arrested Friday on charges he flashed a gun to a teller at an Iowa City bank and told the teller “he would not go home tonight” if he didn’t hand over cash.
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