Electric scooters have been part of a mobility revolution in many cities. But criminals might want to stick to their traditional mode of getaway transportation — the car.
Take it from Mario Haro, who was sentenced last week to 57 months in prison for sticking up a Chase Bank branch in Chula Vista, Calif.
Haro, wearing a fedora, scarf and sunglasses, was spotted fleeing the scene on a Lime electric scooter, police said. The robbery occurred just one day after Lime started operating in Chula Vista last fall.
It wasn't clear whether investigators used any information from Lime — the scooters are trackable, and users need an account to unlock and activate them via smartphone — to identify Haro, who also has a 2008 bank-robbery conviction on his record. He was arrested three weeks after the heist.
"Hopefully, this time the defendant learned a lesson," U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer said in a statement.
Brewer probably meant that Haro should stop robbing banks, but there seems to be a lesson here about the usefulness of new forms of mobility in some instances, too.
