By Tim Binnall
The FBI has arrested a rather unusual gang of suspected bank robbers: a teenager and two children, aged 11 and 12, that authorities dubbed the 'little rascals.' According to a local media report, the trio of troublemakers allegedly robbed a Wells Fargo bank in the city of Houston last week. During the heist, one of the youngsters is said to have slipped a menacing message to a teller who thought that the tots might have been armed. The gang's gambit worked and they subsequently made off with an unspecified amount of ill-gotten money.
However, their remarkably young ages worked against them when the Houston division of the FBI highlighted the weird case on social media. Sharing security footage stills of the kids, they asked if anyone could identify "these 'little rascals'" and explained that "believe it or not they just robbed the Wells Fargo." By virtue of the sheer strangeness of the suspected criminal gang, the images spread quickly online and, to their credit, the parents of two of the youngsters dutifully turned them over to the police.
The third member of the trio also wound up being busted when cops broke up a fight and recognized one of the scrappers from the bank security footage. When the FBI announced the arrest, the nature of the bank-robbing kids became all the more astounding as it turned out that while one was sixteen years old, his accomplices are a jaw-dropping 11 and 12 years old. The trio have been charged with the second-degree felony of robbery by threat and, if convicted, could serve the next several years in juvenile prison.