{"id":61157,"date":"2025-11-23T00:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/61157\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T00:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:04:19","slug":"convicted-felon-arrested-after-trying-to-rob-same-fort-worth-bank-again-authorities-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/61157\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted felon arrested after trying to rob same Fort Worth bank again, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine years after robbing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/fort-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Fort Worth<\/a> bank and serving time in federal prison, a convicted felon returned to the same branch this week and tried again \u2013 only to be arrested once more.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Christopher McKay, 43, was booked on aggravated robbery and local warrants after walking into a bank around 10 a.m. Thursday in the 8800 block of Camp Bowie West Boulevard, claiming he had a handgun and demanding money.<\/p>\n<p>Suspect fled but was caught<\/p>\n<p>McKay&#8217;s attempted robbery failed. He fled on foot, and officers located him nearby and arrested him, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/fort-worth-police-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Fort Worth Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763856259_391_mckay.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"mckay.jpg \" height=\"775\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Christopher McKay, 43<\/p>\n<p>                Fort Worth Police Department<\/p>\n<p>  History of same bank robbery<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say McKay served seven years in prison after attempting to get off with loot from the same bank nearly a decade earlier.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates should more information become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine years after robbing a Fort Worth bank and serving time in federal prison, a convicted felon returned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,430,27],"class_list":["post-61157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-north-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}