Robbery Med for Depression 18/07/2005 Texas Man Robs Bank
 
 Summary:<br><br><!--StartFragment -->Last paragraph reads: &quot;<strong>Tucker explained in court that he&#39;d been treated twice for depression, </strong>and for a mental disorder that caused brain activity to spur him to act impulsively. <strong>He hadn&#39;t been given access to his medication since his arrest, he said.&quot;<br /><br /></strong><a href="http://www.lufkindailynews.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/07/15/20050715LDNrobber.html">http://www.lufkindailynews.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/07/15/20050715LDNrobber.html<br /><br /></a>Polite robber nice enough to plead guilty<br /><br />By ASHLEY COOK, The Lufkin Daily News<br /><br />Friday, July 15, 2005<br /><br />A Georgia man known as the &quot;polite&quot; bank robber who hit the Angelina Savings Bank in Lufkin in March pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors.<br /><br />David Lee Tucker Jr., 32, was relaxed in court Thursday, joking with his attorney before the hearing.<br /><br />He apologized to tellers as he took the money in the March 31 robbery, according to an account by Juanita Rogers, a customer who witnessed the holdup. Tucker walked into the bank and handed a note to a teller indicating he wanted money, and didn&#39;t want to harm her, according to Assistant U.S. District Attorney Reynaldo Morin.<br /><br />Tucker got away with $5,309 in cash, running to his truck parked in the Target parking lot next door, Morin said. He led police on a car chase after a Lufkin Police officer spotted him, weaving in and out of traffic at speeds of up to 70 mph before lawmen stopped him just short of Diboll, Morin said.<br /><br />Officers found bags of stolen money and a semiautomatic pistol in Tucker&#39;s truck. There was no indication he&#39;d used the gun during the robbery, police said.<br /><br />While the maximum sentence for the crime is up to 20 years, Tucker will likely receive much less for his cooperation with authorities.<br /><br />Tucker explained in court that he&#39;d been treated twice for depression, and for a mental disorder that caused brain activity to spur him to act impulsively. He hadn&#39;t been given access to his medication since his arrest, he said.<br /><br />A U.S. district judge will sentence Tucker in about four to six weeks, after a pre-sentence investigation report is completed.<br /><br />Ashley Cook&#39;s e-mail address is acook@coxnews.com.<br /> 
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