Chicago DJ Helps Nab Bank Robbery Suspect

It could go down in history as one of the dumbest acts by a crook.

A man who called himself "D" phoned the Drex in the Morning program on Chicago's Kiss 103.5 FM and told how he and five others robbed a bank.

The man said he knew a woman who was working at the bank and that she helped them plan the whole thing.

"D" gave details about the robbery, which had gone unsolved for five months. He bragged about tying up the bank employees and getting away with $81,000 in cash; saying each person got $18,000.

The man talked about going on a shopping spree for luxury goods on Chicago's ritzy Michigan avenue, paying off his car and giving cash to a girlfriend.

Here's what he didn't expect: that someone who worked at the bank was listening to the radio at the time. She called the cops who went to the radio station, which was able to turn over a cell phone number.

24 year old Randy Washington was picked up a short time later and hauled off to federal court. Another man was also charged.

Authorities say they had no leads in the case .. until the radio phone call.

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