Oklahoma Man Pleads Not Guilty To Bank-Robbery Charge

An Oklahoma man accused of robbing a Fort Smith bank, one he told police he’d rob again given the opportunity, made his first appearance in Sebastian County Circuit Court on Wednesday.

Kelly Odis Kincaid Jr., 66, of Spiro was assigned a public defender and pleaded not guilty to a charge of robbery. Kincaid is being held on a $15,000 bond.

Kincaid is accused of walking into First National Bank, 5201 Rogers Ave., May 3 at about 5:45 p.m., approaching a teller and telling him to fill a plastic sack he handed him with money.

Because he kept one hand in his pocket during the robbery, the teller thought Kincaid was possibly armed. However, Kincaid described the hand as “crippled” and insisted he kept it in his pocket because he wanted the bank employees to think he was an “able bodied man,” according to a police report.

Kincaid told investigators if he was armed he would have shown his weapon during the robbery. He conceded it was reasonable for the teller to think he was armed when he kept one hand in a pocket, according to the report.

He blamed Congress for his decision to rob the bank.

“If Congress did their job, old men like me wouldn’t have to rob banks,” Kincaid said.

Kincaid was arrested at his Spiro home May 6, after two employees identified him in a photo lineup. Police recovered $6,205 of the $13, 512 taken during the robbery, according to the report.

In addition to gambling away a significant amount of money at a local casino, Kincaid told investigators he also sent his sister $1,000 he owed her and paid another $2,000 debt.

When he demanded money, Kincaid expected the teller to threaten to call police, forcing him to flee with no money, but instead the teller put money in the bag.

“All he had to do was say he was calling the law and I would have flew out of (there),” Kincaid said, according to the report.

If he gets out of jail, Kincaid said he would go back to the same bank and “rob the same stupid (person) that gave him the money this time,” according to the report.

Robbery is a Class B felony punishable by five to 20 years in prison.