HELENA, Mont. – A Helena Prerelease Center employee, hearing something rustling in the bushes, threw a rock at a shrub.

To his surprise, he heard someone say “Hey, you hit me in the head,” said Helena Police Cpl. Bill Tompkins.

The rock had hit a 22-year-old escaped convict the center was searching for.

The convict was being transferred by bus from a prison in Seattle to one in Great Falls when he got off at the wrong stop in Helena on Friday, Tompkins said. It wasn’t clear if the man meant to get off the bus in Helena, Tompkins said.

The convict contacted the Helena Prerelease Center, which brought him from the bus stop to the center.

Hours later, center employees noticed the convict was missing and alerted police. They later called back saying the convict was hiding in bushes outside the center.

Police found the man hiding, and took him into custody, Tompkins said.

Banker with ‘Robin Hood’ mentality sentenced

PEORIA, Ill. – A former bank executive who was said to have “Robin Hood” mentality has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for taking money from some accounts and repaying others, as well as pocketing some of the money for himself.

The judge at Friday’s sentencing hearing also ordered Thomas J. Mariotti, 37, to repay more than $691,000 to his former employer and to Tall Oaks Country Club, one of the affected accounts. Mariotti will remain free on bond until he surrenders himself to prison officials next month.

A psychologist who testified at the sentencing hearing said Mariotti had a “Robin Hood” mentality because he took money from the bank to help support bad loans he had made. In one case, he paid off a $45,000 loan, said his attorney, Ron Hamm.

In June, Mariotti waived indictment and pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud.

From Associated Press reports