Last Updated on: 31st January 2018, 10:35 am
In October of 2016, Bank of America discovered a theft. Surprisingly, given that there are so many of them, it wasn’t one of their own. But the bank did suspect that somebody who used to be one of their own was behind it, and so the hunt for former employee Alberto Saavedra Lopez began.
For more than a year, that hunt continued, in large part thanks to Lopez acting like a smart person. A smart person who looked awfully guilty, but that’s neither here nor there. He moved to another town. He refused to talk to the police investigating the case, blowing off the appointments they tried to make with him and not answering their phone calls. In short, he did everything a person on the run should do right in order to stay that way.
But eventually, as so often happens, Lopez ran out of smart person tokens.
The shortage began when, for reasons only he understands, he decided it was time to move back to his old stomping (Stealing?) ground. An iffy proposition to be sure, but one that maybe could have worked had the shortage not become a full blown deficit.
In need of a job, Lopez did what anyone would do. He started applying for one. Unfortunately, he put his name into the running for a dispatcher’s job.
“Unfortunately? What do you mean unfortunately? What’s wrong with working as a dispatcher?”
Nothing, assuming you’re not a wanted man who’s just applied to become one at the very police department that’s been looking for you all this time.
“Ok, you win. That is unfortunate.”
Lopez was arrested when he arrived for what he thought was going to be his interview.
And no, he didn’t get the job. The police took the time to state in their release that he was “out of the running for employment” with the department, in case that was a question someone had. It wasn’t, was it?
