Today's nominee is James R. Knox, who just can't seem to get the bank robbery thing right.

Knox, 50, of Allyn, Mason County, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Tacoma to a bank robbery in Gig Harbor last year. It was his sixth bank robbery.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Knox certainly dressed the part when he walked into the Kitsap Bank on Oct. 30. He wore a mask, hooded sweatshirt, a bicycle helmet and carried a backpack. In case his outfit wasn't sufficient proof of his intentions, Knox yelled that he was robbing the bank and and rushed around the counter, confronting a young, pregnant, teller. Knox demanded money and put his hand in his pocket and gestured as though he had a gun. He did the same thing to a second teller before fleeing with $12,000.

His getaway vehicle? A bicycle, which explains the helmet. He rode the bike to car he had apparently stashed nearby.

Knox wasn't aware that a GPS transmitter had been slipped in with the money that he had taken from the bank. Cops quickly tracked down his car and chased him at speeds up to 105 mph before he ditched the car near the junction of I-5 and the Puyallup River. He ran off, but not without the tracking device. By the time he was found hiding in some bushes, Knox was being watched by a state Department of Transportation camera and a KIRO-TV news helicopter, which filmed the whole thing.

Knox had committed two other bank robberies in 1988 and three more in 1999. In fact, Knox had been out of custody on the 1999 convictions only 10 days when he robbed the Gig Harbor bank. A creature of habit, Knox had previously robbed the Kitsap Bank in 1999.

Knox faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years of imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 when he is sentenced on May 18 in U.S. District Court in Tacoma.