HOUSTON – A Houston man with a lengthy list of criminal convictions that date back to 1979 in Harris County was arrested again Monday.
This time he is a suspect in a "jugging" crime, accused of targeting a woman leaving a north Houston bank, police said.
"The bank customer left the bank here near (FM) 1960 and I-45 and she was followed to this retail location, and he broke the window out and got the money she had withdrawn," said Officer Robert Gonzalez, with the Houston Police Department's Northeast Tactical Unit.
The unit has arrested several suspected bank juggers over the last year in Houston.
The latest, 52-year-old Chesley Spears, was in the process of being transferred to the Harris County Jail Monday evening. Police said he is being charged with felony burglary of a motor vehicle and felony theft.
Juggers have been known to rob victims on some occasions and break into their cars on other occasions.
The most common component is that bank customers are identified as potentially vulnerable and they are followed from the bank where they have often just made a withdrawal to another location where the crime takes place.
Spears has a lengthy arrest record in Harris County that includes drug possession, theft, DWI and evading police.
