“Bank Jugging” is term is used to describe suspects who sit in bank parking lots and watch customers go in and out of a bank. The suspects follow the customers they believe are in possession of cash and look for an opportunity to burglarize their vehicles or rob them directly. This is a growing crime trend in the Houston area and in Montgomery County as well. On October 5, 2015 two bank jugging suspects, from Northeast Houston, were watching a southeast Houston bank. The suspects followed a man from the bank to a nearby restaurant parking lot where they burglarized his vehicle – stealing his money. Officers with the Houston Police Department’s Northeast Tactical Unit were nearby and able to take the suspects into custody. The suspects were identified as Patrick English and Roosevelt Hart. The suspects are documented members of the criminal street gang “Market Street Money Gang”. Members of the gang are known for pharmacy burglaries, bank jugging thefts and robberies, sliding thefts, commercial safe cracking burglaries, aggravated robberies, narcotics trafficking, identity theft, cigarette thefts and more. Suspect Patrick English has been arrested numerous times in bank jugging investigations. He has recently been attributed to bank jugging cases all over the state of Texas. When arrested on October 5th, suspect English was out on bond for three separate Harris County felony charges and one felony charge out of Fort Bend County. After the October arrest, officers with the Houston Police Department and Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office followed up on a Spring/The Woodlands area bank jugging case from September of 2015. Officers were able to identify Patrick English and Henry Wilson as suspects. Patrick English and Henry Wilson followed a man from Chase Bank at I-45 and Rayford to a Chick-Fil-A parking lot on Sawdust Drive. When the man went into the restaurant to order food, Henry and Patrick burglarized his vehicle and stole over $13,000 that he had just withdrawn from the bank. Both are formally charged in Montgomery County for the third degree offense of “Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity.” English, already in custody in Harris County, will be transferred to Montgomery County to stand trial. Henry Wilson was already on the run from a Harris County bank jugging charge and his current location is unknown. Law Enforcement officials are asking for the public’s help in locating Wilson. Law Enforcement Officials warn citizens to be aware of your surrioundings and if you need to dry a large amount of money from the bank to do it in the form of a cashiers check. They also warn not to leave an ATM or bank carrying money or money bag or large packages. Most of these guys use rental cars and tinted windows as the park and watch. When they spot a target they follow that persomn to see if they stop and leave their vehicle. It is then a simple pop of the glass and your package is gone. If they were to be caught is is a misdemeanor which they could get 30 days for. Not long ago they targeted a Houston Car dealer in which they pulled up in a black limo with tinted windows, got $150,000 from the dealers car and were gone in five seconds. When a person walks out with a large package, it is called a “jug” by the thieves.
Police are looking for Henry Wilson and consider him dangerous. Anyone who has knowledge of his whereabouts is asked to call Crimestoppers. Threre is a reward for information leading to his arrest.
PATRICK ENGLISH- IN CUSTODY
HENRY WILSON-WANTED
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