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Paraplegic In Wheelchair Charged In Robbery

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 16, 2008

MERRITT ISLAND - Authorities on Florida's east coast have arrested a man in a wheelchair who they say robbed a credit union on Merritt Island and hid the money in his prosthetic leg.

Brevard County sheriff's deputies said 45-year-old Christopher Warren Reed was caught Friday afternoon about 10 minutes after he robbed Space Coast Credit Union. Reed is a paraplegic who uses a motorized wheelchair.

Investigators said he entered the credit union about 4 p.m., told a teller he was armed with an explosive and demanded money. He left with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Reed told deputies that two people had threatened him with a gun, told him to commit the robbery and were going to take the money for themselves, the sheriff's office said.

He was charged with robbery, grand theft, threatening to use a hoax explosive device and aggravated assault.

The Associated Press

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