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Police: Dallas firefighter robbed bank, tipped teller

According to court documents, he told clerk, ‘I hate to do this to you, but I need you to give me all your money’

By Rebecca Lopez
WFAA

DALLAS — The teller at a Chase bank must have been surprised when the man who robbed her, also tipped her.

It’s one of the new details we’re learning about the firefighter arrested overnight for bank robbery.

News 8 has exclusive video of 37-year-old Jesus Ventura being lead into the jail early Wednesday morning. Hours earlier police say he robbed a Chase bank in southwest Dallas.

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