DELTONA BANK ROBBER CAPTURED

A robber got away with cash from a Deltona bank September 29 but left behind something valuable to Volusia County Sheriff’s investigators: fingerprints. George Vega was arrested Thursday on a warrant charging him with robbery and booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach.

It was just before 5 p.m. when Vega walked up to a drive thru window at Wachovia Bank, 1130 Deltona Blvd., and passed a note through the teller’s transfer drawer. The note said, “Put money from the drawer & your next door neighbor no tricks Im armed wait 15 min to ring alarm if not you will pay.” The teller read the note and also noticed that Vega had his hand on his jacket pocket as if something was in it. The teller passed cash back through the transfer drawer to Vega who then took it and walked away. However, he left behind the note. The teller told deputies that the robber had a band aid near his right eye and that his jacket collar was pulled up to his chin.

The note was processed for evidence and fingerprints were found. Analysis of the prints matched them to Vega. Furthermore, a picture of Vega showed that he has what appears to be tattooed teardrops by his eye where the teller saw the band aid and a tattoo on his neck that would have been covered by his pulled up jacket collar.

Investigator Chris Teague then obtained an arrest warrant Thursday signed by county court judge Peter F. Marshall. Vega was found at his parents’ house on Mayflower Avenue, Deltona, and arrested at 3:15 that afternoon. In addition to the robbery charge, the 43-year-old was also charged with possession of heroin after the drug was found on him during the arrest.