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Thief Robs Banks While Chatting on Phone
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Nov 11, 6:25 AM (ET)

WASHINGTON (AP) - These days it seems that some people just can't go anywhere or do anything without a cell phone in their ear. In northern Virginia the police say they're looking for a woman who's been holding up banks while chatting on her phone.

"This is the first time that I can recall where we've had a crime committed while the person was using a cell phone," Loudoun County sheriff's spokesman Kraig Troxell told The Washington Post in a story published Friday. "The question would be whether anyone is on the other end of the line or not."

Investigators believe the woman has hit four Wachovia bank branches in recent weeks in Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties.

In three of those bank jobs, she was talking on a cell phone, while showing the teller a box with a holdup note attached to it. In the most recent holdup, on Nov. 4, in Ashburn, the robber showed the teller a gun.

The woman is described as well-spoken, with a slight Hispanic accent.

Investigators say they're not sure if she's actually talking to someone on the phone or just pretending. They also won't speculate on why she's chosen only Wachovia branches.

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Anyone here know of these robberies?

 

nm they have identified her: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...111400635.html

haven't detained her yet. What a calm person to be talking on her cell phone while she's robbing banks.

 

pulp fiction.

This is what people do from watching movies.

 

My friend works at a bank and on the first day of his job he was robbed, not sure if it was by her, though. I'm going to ask this week. Anyways, he was given a piece of paper by a girl that said she had a gun and to give her x amount of money if I recall corectly. He told me that even if it's clearly obvious that the robber has no gun, they're to do as they're asked so that no one gets hurt, otherwise you'll be fired. Shitty situation.

 

i work at a bank, they send us notices via email regarding recent bank robberies in and around the area. Robbers do things like talk on the phone alot. It allows them to kind of blend in with everybody else in the room, and not draw any extra negative attention to themselves.

 

i'd hit it.

 

the mexicans strike again

 

i just heard on the news that they found here in a suburban neighborhood. Apparently, the cops got some tips from people saying that they saw that chick around and they found her. She is 19 years old. The rest of her life is fucked

 

she looked kinda cute too. ah well..good luck in prison

 

That's smart. I think people get hurt when they try to be heroes.

Let the money go. It will most likely be either insured, or retrieved later on.

and the robber is KINDA cute