Richard James Verone allegedly walked into a bank and handed a note to the teller saying he was armed and demanding a single dollar. He then sat down and waited for the police to arrive. "He's sitting on the sofa as you walk in the front door,” the teller said in the 911 call. Verone, who was unarmed, demanded such a small amount because he wasn’t interested in making money; he wanted to get sent to prison, so he could receive health care to treat a growth in his chest and two ruptured disks. "I'm sort of a logical person and that was my logic, what I came up with," Verone said in a jailhouse interview. "If it is called manipulation, then out of necessity because I need medical care, then I guess I am manipulating the courts to get medical care." He appears in court June 28.
