Remember that movie Point Break? This guy did it in real life

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May 16, 2008 - 8:16AM

CHICAGO (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - There is new information in one of the biggest bank heists in state history.

An 87-year-old Chicago man has fessed up to the 1991 hold up.

Carmine Jannece says he and three other men put on masks of ex-presidents and robbed the Citizens Trust Savings Bank in Saugatuck 17 years ago.

They pulled off the heist just two months after the movie Point Break came out, which featured a similar scenario.

The men got away with nearly $360,000.

Jannece will be sentenced in July.

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