The slick-as-fry-oil robber known as "Roofman," a former Army reservist in Concord who drilled and dropped into fast-food joints from the Bay Area to Massachusetts, is back behind bars with another whopper of a saga.
His downfall this time? A woman.
By day, Jeffrey Manchester's spent his six months on the lam as a generous churchgoing volunteer known as John, who gave toys to kids and told his new girlfriend and church congregation that he had a secret government job, police said.
At night, he was a fugitive hiding and playing in a Toys "R" Us, making his lair in a cubbyhole in the bicycle display, racing remote-control cars on the roof after hours and riding bikes around the store for exercise, said Sgt. Katherine Scheimreif of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., police. He even monkeyed with the employees' work schedules, and his diet included stolen baby food, she said.
Details here from the San Francisco Chronicle.