PHOENIX – An 81-year-old man with a decades-long criminal record for stealing from banks says he robbed a Tucson credit union after his release from prison because his monthly $800 Social Security payment wasn't enough to live.
Robert Krebs told FBI agents that he didn't wear a disguise to the 2018 robbery because he "kind of wanted to get caught" and return to prison.
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Details of the heist were revealed in court records filed Friday.
Krebs served more than 30 years for a 1981 bank robbery in Florida and was sentenced to three years for a 1966 conviction in Chicago for embezzling $72,000 from a bank.
He did 17 years in Arizona for convictions dating back to 1980.
Krebs pleaded not guilty to a bank robbery charge stemming from the 2018 heist.