In July 2008, a disheveled, shirtless Peter Corlette Keesal** partied by himself in bushes near Aliso Viejo Town Center until an Orange County Sheriff's Department deputy found him.
Keesal, then 43 years old and unemployed, had $24.25 in a sock, (incredibly) $12,315 stuffed in one pants pocket and a half empty bottle of vodka in the other, according to an FBI report.
Three hours earlier and less than a mile away, a man wearing sunglasses and a wild Hawaiian shirt stood in line for six minutes before handing a note to a Washington Mutual Bank teller: “Give me all your cash and nobody gets hurt.”
The bandit walked out with $12,345 in a plastic bag, got on a bicycle and peddled away.
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During questioning with officers, Keesal claimed he'd never owned a Hawaiian shirt (lie), earned the money from work (lie) and had been on his way to buy a vehicle from a Craigslist seller (lie).
“I'll bet you a $100 bill, I'll beat this [bank robbery] case,” he blurted out. “Bring it on.”
In February 2009, U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter found Keesal–already a convicted felon with a rap sheet that included stealing, kidnapping and assault–guilty following a two-day trial.
Three months later inside the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana, Carter sentenced him to a 51-month prison sentence plus three years of supervised probation.
In September 2012, officers re-arrested Keesal, who'd relapsed into alcohol abuse despite repeatedly participating in substance abuse programs, for violating his probation.
The following month Carter released him again from custody.
On Jan. 2, he was arrested once more for violating the terms of his probation and remains in the custody of U.S. Marshals.
In coming days, Keesal will have the unenviable pleasure of refacing the no-nonsense Carter, a judge who is well-known for getting the attention of troubled recidivists.
For example, one Orange County white collar criminal who had difficulty appreciating Carter's orders found himself working as a custodian around the courthouse for several months.
(**Defense lawyers for Keesal spell his middle name Corlett.)
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
I’m looking for a interview done of notorious bank robbers one was my daughter father Peter Joseph Carter I believe the interview was done via Discovery Channel or History Channel, @USP Colorado, don’t know how to find it , any ideas ?