NEW YORK, Jan 16: They were clever enough to penetrate the World Trade Centre's tight security, clever enough to grab a one million-dollar Brink's payroll. But then, police say, the three bandits turned out to be `Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest'. They pulled off their ski masks before walking past hidden security cameras, and within hours their faces were all over TV and the newspapers. Then they went home to their Brooklyn neighbourhood, where dozens of people called the police.``Me and my friend Joey opened the newspaper and said, holy cow there's Mikey,'' said 39-year-old Bill Stout, who tends bar at a neighbourhood tavern. ``We called a police hot line, but apparently 50 or 60 people beat us to it,'' Stout said. By Thursday, two of the three suspects were in FBI custody. Melvin Desmond Folk, 44, was arrested at home on Wednesday night and charged with bank robbery. Michael Reed, 34, was arrested on Thursday. A fugitive warrant was issued for Richard Gillette, 39. The men escaped with $ 1.17 million, $ 300,000 of it in US currency and the rest in foreign denominations. One of the men made no attempt to conceal himself in the neighbourhood, even getting a haircut.``He just walked in here and sat down and asked for a haircut,'' said barber Louis Amato. ``I was really shocked and surprised when i found out (about the robbery). I didn't think he acted like someone who had just robbed a big bank.'' The three accosted two Brink's guards on their way to a Bank of America foreign currency office on the 11th floor of one of the twin towers during Tuesday's morning rush hour. Flashing a gun, they handcuffed and bound the guards and five other people on the elevator, snatched three bags of money from a cart - leaving three others behind - and fled. But then the three slipped up by pulling off their masks in a corridor and walking past the security cameras.More than 60 people called the police to say they recognized the three as men who lived in or frequented the Windsor terrace neighbourhood.Residents described two of the suspects as locals with drug habits and minor criminal records who hung around street corners and sometimes performed odd jobs. Some said the third man was a stranger.
