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Buckeye Crime Writers – Let’s play Name That Bandit!
August 17, 2019 @ 12:30 pm EDT
Buckeye Crime Writers – Let’s play Name That Bandit!
Saturday, August 17, 2019 at 12:30 pm
Old Worthington Library
820 High Street, Worthington, OH
Please join us for your chance to hear about Harry Trombitas’ career and observations.
Quick, which writer invented the Church Lady Bandit?
How about the Droopy Drawers Bandit?
How about the Two-Hat Robber?
These are not characters from a cozy or the latest murder mystery. They were actually real people, though their nicknames were conveyed upon them not by some enterprising journalist, but by an FBI agent. Contrary to what you may have heard in Men In Black, FBI agents DO have a sense of humor that they’re aware of, and now-retired FBI Special Agent Harry Trombitas used his to humanize he bank robbers he was charged with catching.
Trombitas will bring those stories, and many more, to our next meeting, and we can’t wait to hear them!
Trombitas served in the FBI from 1983 until his retirement in 2012. He worked in Omaha, Nebraska, St. Louis, and New York before coming to Columbus in December 1991, and he served as spokesman for the Columbus office from 2003 until his retirement. Before that, he worked as a police officer and detective at Northwestern University and director of public safety at Creighton University. He has a bachelor’s in criminal justice from Ohio State and a master’s in counseling and psychology from Creighton, and is a lecturer in sociology at Ohio State. He is also the system vice president of security operations at OhioHealth and director of the Police Executive Leadership College for the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police.
His wife of 40 years and his two children all graduated from Ohio State, so he’s clearly a Buckeye through and through.
