ANAHEIM, Calif.
There was the Miami Vice bandit, the Fanny Pack bandit, the Big Nose bandit, and then the Brunette bandit all named for memorable outfits or unique characteristics that bank tellers recalled after the holdup.Now police are looking for the first bank robber named for his smell, the "Landscape bandit."
"He smells like dirt that's what people always remember," said Anaheim police Sgt. Tim Schmidt. "It's not like he hasn't bathed in month. It's just he's been outside working in the dirt."
The man, who wears a wide-brimmed hat, has robbed three banks in Southern California since April and two out of three tellers mentioned his distinctive odor to investigators.
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