Byron Shane Chubbuck (born February 26, 1967),[1] also known Oso Blanco de Aztlán and popularly referred to as Robin the Hood is a convicted American bank robber and indigenous activist.
[2] During his criminal run, he informed bank tellers that the money which he stole would go towards the indigenous Zapatista Army in Southern Mexico.
[7] After breaking through the walls of the apartment complex, he jumped out of a window in an escape attempt, but he was quickly captured and arrested, after a brief encounter with a k-9.
[8] On December 21, 2000, Chubbuck unlocked his handcuffs and broke out of a prisoner transport van by kicking down the steel-meshed windows.
[10] He briefly left the country to reside in Mexico, but returned to the United States to try and have his wife join him in Juarez, Mx.
In a call to KZRR-FM radio station on February 5, 2001, Chubbuck admitted to "robbing banks to help the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico".