WEATHERFORD —
A 20-year-old Arlington man who superglued his fingers to avoid leaving fingerprints was sentenced to 15 years and a $3,500 fine for robbing a Weatherford bank in a trial that concluded Tuesday in Parker County District Court.
Frisco Dewayne Tucker pleaded guilty to the robbery charge Friday and elected to have District Judge Don Chrestman assess his punishment.
In September 2009, Tucker entered the bank dressed in a baggy T-shirt with a baseball cap pulled down low to conceal much of his face. After waiting in line, Tucker approached the teller and passed her a note which read, “This is a bank robbery. I’ve got a gun, but don’t want to hurt anybody. No die packs or tracking devices!!!”
“The teller testified that she was afraid Tucker would hurt someone during the robbery, so she cooperated as she had been trained, and he got away with over $1,700,” said Assistant District Attorney Jeff Swain, who prosecuted the case with Assistant District Attorney Nikki Morton. “From the testimony of the branch manager, the staff of the bank was very shaken up by the robbery.”
After Weatherford Police detectives released portions of the video to the news media, they received a Crime Stoppers tip on Tucker.
Detectives developed a fingerprint off of the robbery note and matched it to fingerprints from Tucker’s 2009 arrests in Tarrant County for two credit card abuse felonies and four burglary of a motor vehicle misdemeanors.
“It’s unclear if Tucker forgot to put the superglue on his fingers before he wrote the note or if he missed a spot, but we were very fortunate to get that print because it really made the case,” Morton said.
“At the time of the robbery, this defendant had only been out of the state jail for five weeks,” Swain said. “When he was arrested for the Tarrant County offenses, he had only been on felony theft probation from Oklahoma for a little over two months. To top it all off, when Tucker had a bond violation warrant on the robbery case, he threatened to beat a deputy to death with a baseball bat if he tried to arrest him.
“The rate at which he was committing crimes and the nature of the offense, with all of the planning that went into it, justified the lengthy sentence that was assessed, even in light of Tucker’s relative youth,” Swain said.
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