Mississippi robbery suspect let it slip that he also robbed Hurst bank

A Mississippi bank robbery suspect arrested Monday after a brief chase with Fort Worth police inadvertently let officers know that he had committed another crime a couple of hours earlier.

Robert Scott Antrim was being sought in a bank robbery on Saturday in Pascagoula, Miss. On Monday afternoon, Fort Worth neighborhood police officer V. Hernandez spotted Antrim’s red 1998 Ford F-150 pickup at the Luxury Inn at 2108 E. Lancaster Ave.

Hernandez called for assistance from zero-tolerance officers, who set up surveillance.

When Antrim got into his pickup to leave, officers attempted to stop him, but he fled. He eventually jumped out of his pickup and ran away. He was soon captured by the officers and was later asked if he knew why police were pursuing him.

“He said, ‘Yeah, I robbed a bank today,’” said Michael Baggott with the FBI/Tarrant County Safe Streets Task Force.

Baggott said the surprised officers figured out Antrim was referring to the robbery of the Northstar Bank in Hurst, which had occurred a couple of hours earlier, and contacted the task force.

“Sure enough, we took one look at him and we knew it was the right guy,” Baggott said.

In the Hurst robbery, a man entered the bank about 12:44 p.m. Monday and handed the teller a note demanding money.

Baggott said police recovered about half the money believed stolen from the Hurst bank. He said Antrim said he spent the rest on drugs and prostitutes.

Mississippi federal court records show Antrim was sentenced to 65 months in federal prison in April 2009 and three years on supervised release for the robbery of two banks — two days apart — in Mississippi the previous year.

Now Antrim is also wanted on a federal warrant for violating the terms of his supervised release, Baggott said.

Antrim remained in federal custody Wednesday.

This story was originally published July 29, 2015 at 7:23 PM with the headline "Mississippi robbery suspect let it slip that he also robbed Hurst bank."