Polite Robber

Saying "please" and "thank you" is a virtue, but for a robber in Seattle, politeness went only so far. After a surveillance video showing Gregory Paul Hess robbing a Shell station appeared on YouTube, he was nicknamed the "polite robber." A judge on Friday sentenced Gregory Paul Hess to 60 months in state prison for robbing a Shell station in...

A man accused of robbing a Seattle convenience store at gunpoint last Saturday might have earned points with its owner by being polite. But saying "sir" probably won't impress prosecutors or federal authorities who say they have supervised him since he wrapped up a prison term for an earlier string of hold-ups.The suspect has been identified as 65-...

Saying "please" and "thank you" is a virtue, but for a robber in Seattle, politeness went only so far. After a surveillance video showing Gregory Paul Hess robbing a Shell station appeared on YouTube, he was nicknamed the "polite robber." A judge on Friday sentenced Gregory Paul Hess to 60 months in state prison for robbing a Shell station in...

A man accused of robbing a Seattle convenience store at gunpoint last Saturday might have earned points with its owner by being polite. But saying "sir" probably won't impress prosecutors or federal authorities who say they have supervised him since he wrapped up a prison term for an earlier string of hold-ups.The suspect has been identified as 65-...