I want all your hundreds, and don\u2019t mess around,\u201d <\/strong>he told the cashier, before leaving the casino in a taxi with over $23,000.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSkin \u2018Off\u2019 and \u2018Blotchy\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\nLas Vegas police said Kennedy used the makeup in an attempt to appear African-American, although the cashier said in her statement she didn’t buy it, because his skin color was \u201coff\u201d and \u201cblotchy,\u201d according to court filings.<\/p>\n
Kennedy used the money to buy a gold bracelet for $1,500 and took out a prepaid credit card in someone else\u2019s name.<\/p>\n
Security footage of the crime — with a close-up of Kennedy\u2019s makeup darkened face — was widely circulated by police and media. Despite going to great lengths to disguise his appearance, he was identified by a distinctive gold mouth grill he wore over his teeth.<\/strong><\/p>\nStraight Out of Prison <\/strong><\/h2>\nPolice received an anonymous tip-off on January 18th about Kennedy, and later found phone records that placed him close to where the robber had been dropped off from the taxi on the morning of the robbery.<\/p>\n
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A separate witness said Kennedy had arrived at an apartment in the early hours of that morning wearing black clothing and noticed his face appeared darker than usual, as though he had wiped something off his skin. He was arrested on January 25th.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nKennedy served a little more than a five-year sentence for robbing two banks with a BB gun that had been painted to look like a real gun in 2012. During the course of one of those robberies, he threatened to kill a bank teller.<\/p>\n
He was released from prison in June 2017, but arrested again in December after passing a bad check at the Gold Coast casino and placed under federal supervision.<\/strong><\/p>\nKennedy will face up to 20 years in prison and a maximum $250,000 fine when he is sentenced on December 13th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A white man who disguised himself with blackface makeup to rob the cashier cage at New York-New York pleaded guilty in a Las Vegas courtroom Wednesday to one count of interference with commerce by robbery. 26-year-old Cameron James Kennedy was under court-ordered home confinement in Las Vegas because of previous bank robbery charges when he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":89716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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