Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NEW YORK, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- New York police said they were able to arrest a pair of bank robbers thanks to a taxi driver who refused to move his cab with a smoke bomb going off inside. Cab driver Patrick Omeje, 43, said a man, later identified by police as Robert Krieg, 42, hailed his taxi at about 11 a.m. Tuesday, put two suitcases in the trunk and asked him to wait a few minutes for his friend, the New York Post reported Wednesday. Advertisement Omeje said he soon saw the second man, identified by police as John Gregg, 32, running toward his cab. "He opened the door and started yelling (to go)," Omeje said. "But it took me a few seconds to get the car in gear. I started to drive off -- and that's when I saw the smoke." The driver said he immediately stopped the vehicle and demanded the men explain the smoke, which police said was a booby trap in the bag of money Krieg and Gregg had just stolen from Banco Popular. "Then the guy gets out of the cab and I see money flying all over the street -- it was blood red and I thought maybe he had been shot," he said. Advertisement The men fled, but Krieg had identification in the bags left in Omeje's trunk and the duo was soon arrested, police said. Investigators said the men are suspected in three other bank robberies.
