My local Publix was robbed recently. Just the other day the police arrested a fellow in connection with the robbery. They arrested a young man who worked at Publix. That’s right, it looks like it was an inside job.

Note to any budding thieves - staff are the first suspects! Don’t rob from your place of employment. You should have learned that before you got out of elementary school.

Learn a lesson from this thief in Monroe, Washington. He duped a dozen Craigslist readers into acting as cover for his getaway. He got the money AND he got away. That’s the power of a quality education system.

But apparently, the robber had planned ahead. In case anyone was hot on his trail, he had at least a dozen unsuspecting decoys waiting nearby, which he recruited on Craigslist.

“I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour,” said Mike, who saw a Craigslist ad last week looking for workers for a road maintenance project in Monroe.

He said he inquired and was e-mailed back with instructions to meet near the Bank of America in Monroe at 11 a.m. Tuesday. He also was told to wear certain work clothing.

“Yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask… and, if possible, a blue shirt,” he said.

Mike showed up along with about a dozen other men dressed like him, but there was no contractor and no road work to be done. He thought they had been stood up until he heard about the bank robbery and the suspect who wore the same attire.

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