A US prisoner-turned-actor who landed a role on the TV series Law and Order is going back to prison.
David Wayne, 48, of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, admitted in court that he was The Bomber, who wore bandages on his face and highway flares around his body to hold up suburban New York stores and hotels for thousands of dollars. He claimed the flares were dynamite sticks and threatened to blow himself up if his demands were not met.
He was captured December 1 after a witness recognized him from a police sketch.
Wayne pleaded guilty to robbery and attempted robbery and could be sent to prison for up to 15 years. Judge Susan Cacace scheduled sentencing for June 18.
Wayne has already spent 14 years in prison for earlier robberies, taking part in the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program. Since his release in April 2005, he had worked at a veterans hospital doing storytelling and creative writing projects as therapy.
Using the name David Wayne Britton, he played a best-selling, once-imprisoned author who denounced racism and gang violence on the television show Law and Order.
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