Federal prosecutors released photos today of two men identified as the “Dumb and Dumber” bank robbers mugging for the camera while holding stacks of bills.
Anthony Prince, 20, and Luke Carroll, 19, were sentenced to prison last month after pleading guilty to robbing a bank in Vail.
The men, both residents of Australia who were working at a Vail ski shop, were dubbed “Dumb and Dumber” by the Australian media because of a string of clues they left behind that led to their capture the next day.
U.S. attorney’s spokesman Jeff Dorschner said the photos were released in response to requests from Australian media, but he referred other questions to an FBI spokeswoman, who did not immediately return a call. The FBI and Vail police scheduled a news conference to discuss the case Tuesday.
The March robbery of WestStar Bank netted $129,500, prosecutors said.
In the photos, the man identified by prosecutors as Prince grins into the camera with $20 bills fanned out in each hand. The man identified as Carroll has his lips pursed while one hand clutches a plastic-wrapped stack of bills and the other holds more, spread out in a fan.
Prince was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison and Carroll to five years – a longer term because authorities said he threw a bank teller to the ground. They were also ordered to pay a combined $21,657 in restitution, the amount still missing, prosecutors said.
Witnesses said the masked robbers had distinct accents and wore badges similar to ones issued by Prince and Carroll’s employer. Ski resort employees told police that Carroll and Prince used their ski passes to board a chair lift near the bank within minutes of the robbery.
Investigators distributed flyers with Carroll and Prince’s photos from a previous arrest on vandalism charges.
An officer at the Denver airport arrested them the next after recognizing them from the flyer and their distinctive accents.
Authorities said they had tried to buy one-way tickets to Mexico.
Investigators said they found thousands of dollars in an airport trash can, on Carroll’s person and in a yard near the bank.
