were endangering the public by firing the shots. finally a lead comes in. an arrest is made in an unrelated case where one of the suspects had a handgun. police protocol requires the firearm to be taken to the laboratory to be analyzed. and to see if it had a connection to any other ongoing investigations. they get a match. the shell casing discovered the scenes of the leaping bandit robberies connect with this gun. blastic tests done by the laboratory confirm there is no doubt this is the gun. meaning the person in possession of the weapon most likely is involved in the leaping bandit crimes. we couldn t wait to get the photos and start looking at them to see if they matched the surveillance photos, which they did.
the motel shows someone who resembles the bank robber being picked up by a man in a white suv. in the days following the robbery, greco is driving a white suv. police need one more piece of the puzzle to irrefutably link the man to the robbery. it comes from evidence found inside the car. a black knit cap is sent out for dna testing. when the results come back, there s a hit. the dna belongs to a convicted felon. ultimately at perfect dna match was identified on the knit hat. the match being that to joseph scala. they are arrested for the robbery of the td bank without putting up a fight. it turns out the men know each other from when they lived in new york city s staten island. they chose the td bank because greco knew it well.
the security camera outside the motel shows someone who resembles the bank robber being picked up by a man in a white suv. in the days following the robbery, greco is driving a white suv. police need one more piece of the puzzle to irrefutably link the man to the robbery. it comes from evidence found inside the car. a black knit cap is sent out for dna testing. when the results come back, there s a hit. the dna belongs to a convicted felon. ultimately at perfect dna match was identified on the knit hat. the match being that to joseph ska la. they are arrested for the robbery of the td bank without putting up a fight. it it turns out the men know each other from when they lived in new york city s staten island. they chose the td bank because
police search for evidence of the gunshot that was fired into the air. they find paint chips on the floor that had fallen from the 40-foot ceiling. we just looked up at binoculars and saw a dink on the ceiling where the round ended up. when the robber tossed his body over top of the barrier, his hand touched the top of it. a thief has left behind a perfect fingerprint. it was about this wide. it looked like someone took a fingerprint card. it was so perfect. there was dust atop the glass where the individual had gone over and hadn t touched in many months. the individual did not have any gloves on at the time and left a perfect fingerprint. the fingerprint is run through a national database that contains the prints of millions of noun criminals. but there is no match. the man who mystified police by
pull up his prior arrests. they discovered fingerprint found at the scene of the first heist is a perfect match. police say the fingerprint didn t match before because there s so many prints in the database that the computer is not only reliable in making the connection. but with a name, an examiner can a comparison can be made. it s a 1000% hit. martin pedro is as dangerous as they suspected. when they were out driving around, they needed money, they would call martin s atm machine and basically he would jump out of the car, run around the corner and rob somebody at gunpoint and then jump back in and then he would have a gold chain or money to spend on whatever they needed. they used to call it it martin s atm. on february 3rd, 2003, a man