Having looted a Michigan bank on Wednesday, parolee Mark E White flagged down a passing vehicle a few blocks away.

The driver turned out to be local Saginaw Township detective Scott Jackson, who immediately arrested the would-be escapee.

The hapless con was slapped with charges that include bank robbery and making a false bomb threat.

He is now being held at the Saginaw County Jail on a $755,000 (£465,600) bail.

The attempted bank job came a matter of weeks after White had been freed on parole.

He was released from jail on June 16 after serving time for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and - fittingly - violating an earlier parole.