If robbers had to be licensed, this guy wouldn’t have made it.

Over the weekend, Merriam, MO police said, he got locked out of a hotel he was trying to stick up, and, after a successful robbery, he spilled loot when he ran headlong into a trash container. Police think he also held up a Shawnee doll store.

Police arrested a man Sunday at a barbecue in a park, shortly after the last robbery.

The robber tried to start his crime spree Friday at the Drury Inn at Shawnee Mission Parkway and Interstate 35 in Merriam, police said, by pulling brown pantyhose over his head.

But a clerk saw his disguise through a front window and locked the doors. The man ran off empty-handed.

On Saturday morning, police said, the same man walked into the Doll Cradle at 5725 Nieman Road, this time with his head scrunched into gray pantyhose. He showed a gun in his waistband and ran with cash from the register.

About 3:50 p.m. Sunday, the robber walked up to the counter of the 7-Eleven at 6850 Antioch Road in Merriam with black pantyhose over his head. He kept a hand under his shirt as if he had a gun, police said, and demanded a carton of cigarettes and all the cash from the register.

He ran from the store cradling his spoils and keeping a watch over his shoulder for anyone who might be chasing him, a witness told police.

The real danger was up front, however. He slammed into the store’s trash bin and cash went flying. He scooped up the money but left a trail of four packs of cigarettes on his way to his getaway car.

Another witness noticed the license plate because he was suspicious that a woman was waiting in the idling car.

Police followed a tip to Antioch Park, where they found a man grilling dinner for his wife. Officers arrested the man and woman after they couldn’t agree where they had been earlier.

Dirk Aaron Stumpner, 42, and Judy Ann Stumpner, 38, were charged Monday in Johnson County District Court with aggravated robbery. Dirk Stumpner’s bond was set at $20,000, but a judge reduced Judy Stumpner’s to $5,000.