Police: Convicted bank robber returns
to scene for second failed crime

By JOHN GALLAS
Staff Writer

If at first you don't succeed, rob the same bank again.

But Shawn Carl Bullock failed -- again, Ormond Beach police said Tuesday.

Bullock, 35, already served 3 1/2 years in prison for robbing the Bank of America at 299 N. Nova Road in Ormond Beach in 2003. Police say he presented a note to a teller at that same bank on March 6. The note implied he had a gun and he got away with cash -- just as he did six years ago.

The next day during a traffic stop, Daytona Beach police found $1,000 in 50- and 100-dollar bills along with drugs on Bullock, police said. But it was Bullock's family who recognized him from bank surveillance photos police released, and on Monday he was charged with the bank heist.

Bullock of Ormond Beach was charged with robbery and grand theft, and was held Tuesday at the Volusia County Branch Jail on $52,000 bail.