WTAE A western Pennsylvania will appear before a federal magistrate on charges he robbed two banks and a store and eventually told police he did so because he needed the money to kill his ex-girlfriend and flee the state. Rostraver police have said 34-year-old Stephen Gaza IV, of Masontown, “openly admitted” that was his motive after he was charged by them with robbing a PNC Bank branch there on June 11.

Oh man, special kind of idiot here. I’d hate to be the person responsible for giving this guy legal advice. This sounds exactly like the hundreds of times I screwed up as a kid and was questioned by Officer Mom why something was broken in the house.

You know the drill, they’d casually toss out the classic “tell me the truth and you won’t get in trouble.” Obviously any kid with half a brain saw right threw this stone cold lie and lived by the golden rule “deny til you die.”

Now I do not pretend to know all the laws, but I’m pretttttty sure the punishment for an old fashioned robbery isn’t as severe as planning a murder, this might have been the perfect time to use that right to remain silent.