jimmy torres is no stranger to the orange county jail. but even though he claims to be one of the nation s most prolific bank robbers, he says this time he s not guilty. and a judge has decided torres will get a second chance to prove his innocence. he s granted torres a retrial of his most recent bank robbery conviction. it s going to be a new trial now, and everything is going to come out. the truth is going to come out. torres cellmate ryan abbey also got good news at a recent court hearing. he was accepted into a rehab program, and a few weeks into it has written to torres about life outside the orange county jail. i received two letters from ryan since he s been gone. he goes, hey, jimmy, what s up, buddy? did some research did some research on the mummy bandit thing for me, and he says there s mummy bandits all over the place. it s like a mummy nation.
now he s pursuing a literary career working on his autobiography. yeah. it s the bank robber blues, the tales of the mummy bandit. it s pretty good. i ve got a couple guys here. i let them read it, and they are kind of my critics, and they say it s a page-turner. it keeps the reader interested. it doesn t take a genius to figure out how to write when you lay it down. if they can do it, i can do it. i m working on it. i m just getting warmed up. i have a lot more to go. i m like in 1985 right now. but for now torres puts his book aside to help out his cellmate ryan abbey. basically what you want to tell them is that you need help, buddy, okay? yeah. you ve got a problem. we both know that. what you told me, i read the police reports. abbey was convinced his latest arrest would send him to prison, but the judge has allowed him the option of entering an alcohol treatment program.
i never counted. torres says he didn t just gamble away his loot but was a modern day robinhood. i would give money to homeless people when i see them on the street. i give them $100. i remember one time i was coming out of a bank and kids were out there at christmastime with the salvation army. he asked me for money. i don t have any right now and i ll be right back. you can imagine what i did, okay? now 49 years old, torres started his career as a bank robber when he was only 17, and he claims all of his robberies have been non-violent. i would go in there and basically just pass the note. i never used a gun. basically used to put this is a robbery. give me all the 100s and 50s from the bottom drawer first. i wanted the money from the bottom drawer. i didn t want the money from the top drawer because that s the chump change. torres became known as the mummy bandit because of how he would cover his face during robberies, but he says the mummy
he mentions that sobriety is great. people are good at the house, and he mentioned also that he s going to help me with this project we ve got going. we re going to make some t-shirts, free the mummy bandit. itwasntme.com, the name of the website. he also says to keep positive, you will win your case. let me know when your next court date is. marc gonzales is adjusting not only to a new cellmate but a new cell where he s confined most of the day. he even eats his meals in his cell, and it s not that he s paranoid about the food, but he is cautious. i m washing my meat. this is what i call boo-boo meat. the nastiest, smelly meat ever. he likes it but i think it s nasty. i wash it off. it s like a rinse job i have going on. that s just me. i m going to eat this, i m trying to eat it right.