Bandit with Cell Phone, Boyfriend Held
Tom Jackman
Washington Post
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Fairfax, Virginia (US):
The "cell phone bandit," who robbed four Northern Virginia banks without missing a conversational beat, was talking to her boyfriend, who was acting as her lookout and getaway driver outside each bank, according to court records and law enforcement officials.
Candice R. Martinez, arrested early yesterday in Centreville, and the boyfriend, Dave C. Williams, told investigators that they planned and carried out each of the Wachovia Bank holdups, according to authorities.
Martinez, 19, a community college student from Santa Fe, N.M., was perhaps the nation's best-known fugitive after police identified her as the woman in the nationally broadcast surveillance video of a Nov. 4 holdup in Ashburn.
While looking for Martinez, police targeted Williams, also 19, and picked him up Monday night at an apartment in the Fairfax City area.
Williams, a former Wachovia Bank employee, told investigators that he and Martinez plotted each robbery, starting with an Oct. 12 holdup in Vienna, court records say.
Martinez said she walked in, handed over a box with a note demanding $75,000, then stood at the window, chatting on her cell with Williams, who was outside in the getaway car, law enforcement officials said. They made off with $14,700.
Nov 16, 2005
Tom Jackman
Washington Post
_____________
Fairfax, Virginia (US):
The "cell phone bandit," who robbed four Northern Virginia banks without missing a conversational beat, was talking to her boyfriend, who was acting as her lookout and getaway driver outside each bank, according to court records and law enforcement officials.
Candice R. Martinez, arrested early yesterday in Centreville, and the boyfriend, Dave C. Williams, told investigators that they planned and carried out each of the Wachovia Bank holdups, according to authorities.
Martinez, 19, a community college student from Santa Fe, N.M., was perhaps the nation's best-known fugitive after police identified her as the woman in the nationally broadcast surveillance video of a Nov. 4 holdup in Ashburn.
While looking for Martinez, police targeted Williams, also 19, and picked him up Monday night at an apartment in the Fairfax City area.
Williams, a former Wachovia Bank employee, told investigators that he and Martinez plotted each robbery, starting with an Oct. 12 holdup in Vienna, court records say.
Martinez said she walked in, handed over a box with a note demanding $75,000, then stood at the window, chatting on her cell with Williams, who was outside in the getaway car, law enforcement officials said. They made off with $14,700.
Nov 16, 2005
