http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051111...aztiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA-- Woman raises multi-tasking to a new level Fri Nov 11, 1:15 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A young woman robbed four banks in Washington's suburbs without ever interrupting conversations her cell phone, a sheriff's spokesman said on Friday. In the most recent heist, the woman, with sunglasses casually pushed up on her dark hair and a mobile phone at her ear, walked up to a bank teller in Ashburn, Virginia, on November 4 and opened her purse to show a handgun and a note demanding cash, said Loudoun County sheriff's spokesman Kraig Troxell. "During the entire sequence, she was on her cell phone," Troxell said by telephone. "When we compared it with other robberies that have occurred in the area, we determined she was involved in three other robberies. ... In those cases, she was also on the cell phone." The four jurisdictions -- Loudoun County, Prince William County, Fairfax County and the city of Vienna, Virginia -- are working together to track the suspect, circulating surveillance video to local media. No one was injured in the robberies, and the amount taken was not disclosed. Troxell said it was unclear what role the cell phone may have played in the case. "With the use of the cell phone, was she just trying to act nonchalant, not drawing any attention to herself? Was there anyone even on the other line? Was there an accomplice? Was she just talking to someone on the phone who may not have been aware of what she was doing, just to help her through the crime?" Troxell said there might have been an accomplice waiting outside, or "it could be ... she was just doing it to make herself look like anybody else."
She probably cuts people off while flicking them off during her getaway. Need 3 hands? Not for a pro.
This joke is not meant to offend anyone. It's just for fun and giggles. Why do women have smaller feet? So they can get closer to the sink.
Pumpkin: I heard about this guy, walked into a federal bank with a portable phone, handed the phone to the teller, the guy on the other end of the phone said: "We got this guy's little girl, and if you don't give him all your money, we're gonna kill 'er." Honey Bunny: Did it work? Pumpkin: ****in' A it worked, that's whatI'm talkin' about! Knucklehead walks in a bank with a telephone, not a pistol, not a shotgun, but a ****in' phone, cleans the place out, and they don't lift a ****in' finger. Honey Bunny: Did they hurt the little girl? Pumpkin: I don't know. There probably never was a little girl -- the point of the story isn't the little girl. The point of the story is they robbed the bank with a telephone. Honey Bunny: So you wanna rob banks? Pumpkin: I'm not sayin' I wanna rob banks, I'm just illustrating that if we did, it would be easier than what we been doin'....
She is using the cell phone in case she gets caught. She can say that someone on the other end was giving her instructions. She could use the excuse that the person would kill her if she did not follow instructions. If this is indeed what’s happening, it’s pretty clever. The person on the other end of the phone is probably her boyfriend.
The cell-phone bank robber has just been caught by the police... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051115...4btiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA-- FBI nabs suspected cell phone bandit Tue Nov 15,10:27 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI on Tuesday arrested a 19-year-old woman suspected of robbing four Virginia banks while apparently talking on her cell phone, local media said. Candice R. Martinez was captured at 3:40 a.m. in Centreville, Virginia, after an FBI agent spotted a car linked to the Washington-area robberies, FBI spokeswoman Debbie Weirman told a CBS television affiliate. The young woman who robbed the banks was filmed by security cameras casually walking up to the teller and handing over a note while holding a cell phone to her ear the whole time. Asked whom the suspect was talking to, Weirman told CBS: "I don't know yet. Hopefully, it will come out in the coming days." She said authorities were flooded with tips after the robber's face was broadcast across the nation. No one was injured in the heists in Loudoun County, Prince William County, Fairfax County and the city of Vienna, Virginia.
Boyfriend busted too http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1105/278008.html Court Papers Say 'Cell Phone Bandit' Has Confessed RSS Feeds From ABC 7 Tuesday November 15, 2005 2:01pm Alexandria (AP) - It appears the suspected Cell Phone Bandit has confessed. An FBI (website) affidavit filed in federal court Tuesday says Candice Martinez admitted being responsible for robbing Wachovia Bank branches in Manassas, Ashburn, Vienna and Springfield. The court papers also reveal her boyfriend, Dave Williams, confessed to driving the getaway car in all four heists. Williams had once worked at the Vienna branch. According to the affidavit, in that incident, Martinez allegedly showed the teller a box with a note demanding $75,000 dollars. She got less than $15,000 None of the cash from any of the heists has been recovered. Martinez is accused of being the Cell Phone Bandit, seen on surveillance video chatting on her cell while robbing banks. The couple, who are both 19, remain behind bars.
Less than 15k from four banks? I guess that bank robbing isn't as lucrative as I had been led to believe...
One time I went to bank to ask for $15000 in cash to move to a different bank across town, and they said they do not have it in the branch! They gave me a free certified check instead(free of charge). So banks really do not have much cash I guess.
Off-topic, but... A guy is convicted and sent to prison. On his first day, he goes to the mess hall for dinner and starts to get to know his fellow prisoners. Someone a few tables over calls out "Seventeen!" and everyone laughs. Another prisoner yells out "Eighty-four!" and everyone laughs again. Our protagonist is a bit perplexed. "One-hundred eighteen" someone says and there's another bout of laughter. Finally, he turns to his neighbor and asks him, "What's all this business about calling out numbers?" His neighbor tells him, "Guys like to tell jokes around dinner, but we've all been in here so long that we've already heard everyone's jokes a million times. So, instead of bothering to tell the whole thing again, we just assign each joke a number." That makes sense, he decides. Another number is called and again more laughter. Eager to fit in, he calls out next, "Twenty-four!" Silence. "What's the matter?" he asks his neighbor. "Is twenty-four not a funny joke?" The neighbor replied, "Some people can tell 'em and some can't."
