Police say a western Pennsylvania man jailed on three robberies and suspected in another in West Virginia told them he needed the money to kill his ex-girlfriend and flee the state.
Rostraver police say 34-year-old Stephen Gaza IV, of Masontown, "openly admitted" that was his motive after he was charged by them with robbing a PNC Bank branch there on June 11.
Gaza is also charged with robbing a Kmart in June 7 and a United Bank on Monday, both in Uniontown. He was caught after the Monday bank heist, and is also suspected of robbing a Huntingdon Bank in Morgantown that same afternoon.
Online court records don't list an attorney for Gaza, who remained in the Fayette County Jail unable to post $100,000 bond on Thursday.
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