Civilians foil wig-wearing Fort Worth bank robber

FORT WORTH -- A would-be bank robber was taken down by four civilians and arrested Friday after getting his money but failing to plan his escape, police said.

Police arrested Larry Don Enos, 57, and charged him with aggravated robbery, said Lt. Paul Henderson, a Fort Worth police spokesman.

Enos was in jail Friday evening waiting to be transferred to a holding facility in Mansfield, jail spokesman Lt. K. R. Ulrickson said. Bond had not been set yet and it was not known if Enos had an attorney.

The incident began when a man with a handgun walked into a bank and told an employee: "This is a robbery. I want the money from the drive-through and the money from the cash register." The man was wearing a fake beard, mustache and wig, Henderson said in the online edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

After getting the cash, the alleged robber -- who apparently took a taxi to the bank robbery, KTVT reported -- told the teller to drive him from the bank, but the teller refused, Henderson said.

The teller instead tricked the alleged robber, giving him keys and saying they went with a car in the parking lot. They didn't.

Foiled, the man attempted to steal a car from a woman in the ATM drive-thru, but she needed space to pull up. The robber allowed her to pull up, but she just kept driving, Henderson said.

"Smart lady," Henderson said.

The man then tried to steal another woman's car, Henderson said. This woman wanted time to get her children out of the car.

That's when four bystanders took the man down and detained him until police arrived, Henderson said.

"He probably picked the wrong date to commit a bank robbery," Henderson said. "Everything went wrong."

The civilians did not wish to be identified, Henderson said. No injuries were reported in the robbery.