STEALING
BACK TO JAIL

Topics: Addiction; Bondage; Depravity; Emptiness; Foolishness; Freedom; Powerlessness; Rebellion; Will

References: John 8:31–36; Romans 6:5–7, 16–18, 21–23; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Galatians 5:1, 13; James 1:25; 1 Peter 2:16

A man who robbed a bank ten years ago and was sentenced to seventy months in a federal penitentiary decided he liked prison life so much that he committed another crime so he could return. Danny Villegas walked inside a Federal Credit Union in Florida and told the teller he was robbing her, adding, “You might as well call the police right now.”

Villegas then sat down on a couch in the lobby and waited for police to arrive. “He said he wanted to rob a federal bank because he wanted to go back to a federal penitentiary,” said Lieutenant Ron Wright of the South Daytona Police Department. Villegas had worked in construction in Texas for five years but had grown tired of the work.

—Associated Press, “Police Say Man Staged Florida Robbery to Go Back to Prison,” Houston Chronicle (January 9, 2007)