A California man was arrested for allegedly going on a crime spree while wearing a Pennywise clown mask on Tuesday in Victorville, California, police said. 

Joel Hernandez, 22, is facing charges of robbery and battery and is being held on a $200,000 bond. 

A woman called 911 at about 5:15 p.m. to report that a man wearing a white clown mask and red sweatshirt had just robbed her as she withdrew money from an ATM. 

Deputies detained Hernandez nearby because he matched the description of the suspect and the victim identified him as the man who attacked her. 

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While investigating that incident, deputies learned that a second victim called 911 minutes before the robbery to report that a man in a white clown mask had groped her in the parking lot of a grocery store roughly 1 mile away from the bank. 

A search of Hernandez's backpack turned up a clown mask and $500 that he allegedly stole from the second victim, according to police. 

The clown mask resembles Pennywise, the main character in Stephen King's horror novel "It." 

Authorities urged anyone else who may have been an alleged victim of Hernandez to contact the Victorville Police Department at 760-241-2911. 

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UPDATED 4:27 PM PT – Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Former Financial Adviser to the Pentagon, Jim Rickards, is warning that the Biden administration is destroying the U.S. financial system.

In a recent statement, Rickards claimed that Democrat officials are replacing the U.S. dollar with a digital currency that would expand the surveillance of all Americans.

In a video posted to YouTube, he pointed out that Biden signed Executive Order 14067 on March 9th. The order enables a “fully trackable spyware version of the U.S. dollar.” The order is called Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets, and it claims to introduce government regulation of crypto and digital currencies.

However, Rickards says the order allows legal surveillance of bank accounts and purchases.

“This is what I believe Section 4 of Biden’s order means for all Americans, the U.S. dollar will be made obsolete,” Rickards said. “Soon your cash will be confiscated or simply be worthless paper. The cash currency we have now will be replaced with a new programmable digital token but the truth is few from the deep state recognize Biden’s movement for what it really is. The digital dollar means Dems would be able to punish and contribution purchase or even social media comment that they don’t like.”

Rickards also warned that the deepening inflation crisis may lead to a collapse of the U.S. financial system which, in turn, would accelerate the transition to the digital dollar.