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A bench warrant has been issued for a man accused of a 2003 bank robbery, but he’s told Kingston Police he plans to leave the city instead of showing for court.

“I’m doing the right thing,” Cory James Stevenhaagen wrote in an email to Det. Jay Finn on March 2 after he didn’t appear for a mid-February appearance. “This isn’t a game for me, it’s my life. I don’t get to clock in and out of it at the end of the day, so spare me the guilt trip. I offered to pay the lady $5,000 and do 240 hours of service on top of the offer, that’s when everything got complicated all of a sudden.”

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Two days later Stevenhaagen forwarded his exchange with the investigator to the Whig-Standard.

Stevenhaagen was arrested on May 29 and charged with one count of robbery in connection to a robbery at the Scotiabank branch at 863 Princess St. on May 28, 2003. According to a report in the Whig-Standard, a man wearing no disguise simply walked up to one of the tellers at about 11 a.m. and demanded cash.