Last Friday, October 4th, a robbery took place at the TD Bank in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, involving a gunman who was later apprehended at a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown.

According to the NYPD, the suspect, 70-year-old Joseph Jean-Louis, who is homeless, allegedly threatened bank employees with a firearm around 9 AM and made off with $500 in cash. Law enforcement managed to locate him using a tracking device hidden in the stolen money. They found him at the New Kim Tuong Restaurant situated at the corner of Chrystie and Hester Streets, where he was arrested as he was about to leave, although no weapon was discovered on him at the time.

Upon his arrest, Jean-Louis strongly denied that the cash he was carrying was stolen. He claimed instead that it was his “social security benefits” and even asserted that he had taken out a $50 million loan from the bank. He is scheduled to appear in Brooklyn Criminal Court this Saturday to face charges of robbery and grand larceny.

This isn’t Jean-Louis’s first brush with the law; he previously served a year in prison for attempted robbery and was released from the Elmira Correctional Facility in July of this year. Currently on parole until next February, he now faces several new charges, which include robbery, grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, and making threats. Prior to this incident, he had been staying in a shelter in the Kips Bay area.