Newark Bank Robber With Hot Pink Exploding Dye Convicted (Video)

A 29-year-old Newark man faces up to 10 years in state prison after he was recently convicted of robbing a Capitol One bank in Newark in 2021, authorities said.

Video of Esau Grant and his exploding dye.

Photo Credit: Newark NJ Department Public Safety

Sam Barron

12/01/2023 4:11 p.m.

On July 3, 2021, Esau Grant walked into the Springfield Avenue bank and passed a note to a teller that read: I have a gun, give me all the money from the register please and no one will get hurt," Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II said.

Grant made off with $2,300 and was captured with hot pink exploding dye on surveillance camera. He was captured two days later.

Grant was convicted of second degree robbery after a one-day trial and will be sentenced in January.

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