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MOTIVES/REVENGE

A 92-year old man who pleaded guilty to robbing a bank was recently sentenced to 12 and one-half years in prison. J.L. Hunter "Red" Rountree pleaded guilty in federal court to taking almost $2000 from an Abilene, Texas bank in August 2003. The robbery was his third robbery in the past five years.

In August, Rountree handed a teller an envelope with "Robbery" written on it in red marker. He then handed the teller an envelope and told her to put money in it. When the teller asked the 92-year-old man if he was kidding, Rountree replied, "Hurry up or you will get hurt."

Authorities arrested Rountree 30 minutes later about 20 miles outside of town. Rountree's crime spree began in December 1998, a week before he turned 87. He was arrested in Biloxi, Mississippi minutes after robbing a local bank. He was sentenced to three years probation, fined $260 dollars, and told to leave the state. The next year he was arrested after robbing a bank in Pensacola, Florida, and sentenced to three years in prison.

A relative told authorities that Rountree was once a successful businessman in Houston. When his wife died in 1986, he married a younger woman and spent $500,000 putting her through drug rehabilitation. After his second wife divorced him, Rountree robbed his first bank. He told a Florida newspaper in 2001 that he had not liked banks since the one he had done business with forced him into bankruptcy. He admitted that money and revenge motivated him to take up a life of crime.

—Associated Press, Elderly Man gets 12 Years for Bank Robbery, January 23, 2004, Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell

Proverbs 16:2 NIV "All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the Lord."

Kelly Verceles seemed at first glance to be a faithful friend of Jeffrey Shaw in rural Marsing, Idaho. Even when Shaw was arrested and revealed to be Enrico Ponzo a fugitive mobster, Verceles refused to abandon his friend. 

However, as it turned out, his motives weren’t quite so pure Authorities arrested Verceles when he and his cohorts broke into Ponzo’s house. They used a jackhammer, and  a blow torch to break through the concrete foundation, and opened a safe where Ponzo had stashed $100,000. Verceles is now in prison.

--New York Times- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/us/27mob.html?ref=us Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Miguel Martinez

Proverbs 16:2 NIV "All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the Lord."

MOTIVATION

In The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management, Alan Murray writes, “The goal is to create conditions that make them want to offer maximum effort on their own.” —Jim L. Wilson

--The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management, Kindle Loc. 542-3

Philippians 4:13 (CSB)

I am able to do all things through him who strengthens me.