Teen Arrested For Robbing Bank Hours After Escaping From Jail

By Gan Matthews, NEWS 9

MOORE, Oklahoma -- A suspected teen banker robber is back in jail after he escaped from a federal holding facility and shortly after robbed another bank, police said.

On July 16, Joshua Leon Maness, 18, walked into the Arvest bank on 4th Street and Eastern Avenue in Moore. Maness gave the teller a note demanding "all the money" in 20 seconds, police said. He got away with about $750, but police were able to quickly identify Maness after he made no attempt to hide his face from the bank's security cameras.

Maness was taken to Oklahoma City's Carver Center, where security is at the lowest possible level, community level.

Last Saturday Maness was able to escape from the facility. Friends and family told police they believed he was headed out of state.

"We spoke to his mother. We spoke to his girlfriend. Both said he was going to California, that he had already, that he had taken a plane yesterday to California," said Moore Police Officer Jeremy Lewis.

But instead of California, police said Maness headed to another Arvest bank in Moore on 19th Street and Sante Fe Avenue. Again Maness entered the bank, making no attempt to hide his face from security cameras and handed the teller a note, police said.

"The note says she has twenty seconds to give him all her money or he's going to shoot everyone in the bank," Lewis said.

Maness left the banks with just over $2,000, but police caught up with him just a few blocks away.

Maness now likely faces two federal bank robbing charges

He is now being held in the Grady County Jail in Chickasha, where the security is considerably higher.

Maness is also facing a grand larceny charge in Cleveland County. According to court documents, the people he allegedly robbed were his own parents.