STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich.— A serial bank robber, who moonlights as a crime novelist and has a taste for luxury cars, allegedly struck two more banks near Detroit just a year after his release from prison, NBC News reported.
Dorian Trevor Sykes, 41, has been arrested and accused of robbing the Credit Union One in Sterling Heights on March 6 and then a Chase branch in Lathrup Village on March 12, according to a criminal complaint written by police officer Matthew Willard, who is assigned to the FBI's Macomb County Gang and Violent Crime Task Force, NBC News said.
In the March 6 incident, a man walked into the credit union, handed a teller a note and said, "This is a robbery," according to Willard. The man asked for "big bills" before fleeing in a "black crossover vehicle, possible a Mercedes sedan," with $10,169, the complaint continued.
Fingerprints lifted from the credit union's front door matched that of Sykes, who drives a black Mercedes sedan, authorities said
Then six days later, a man walked into the Chase location and gave a teller "a withdraw slip, which stated, 'Give me all the money ... I have a gun ... I will kill everyone in here," the complaint stated.
"The robber also pointed to his right side, implying that he had a weapon," Willard added according to NBC News.
The suspect fled with about $3,400 and surveillance cameras showed him "running behind a condominium complex and" entering "a parked white Rolls Royce SUV."
Sykes had been released from prison in February last year and was under federal supervision, officials said.
“When he’s not allegedly robbing banks, Sykes appears to spend time behind the keyboard in his side hustle as an author of crime novels,” NBC News said.