Will Call You Back, I'm Robbing a Bank...
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Washington (US):
Who was this woman who was so busy yakking on her cell phone that she couldn't stop to rob a bank? The police in Northern Virginia say they're looking for a woman who's been holding up banks while chatting on her phone.
CBS News correspondent Joie Chen reports Saturday morning police moved in on a young woman overheard pulling a hold-up in the same neighborhood.
Police charge the woman with armed robbery, but Chen reports it may be a copycat crime. The woman didn't have a phone, but looks similar and had the same method — a note, a claim to be armed, and a bold, daylight strike.
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See Also:
Police: No Connection Between Robber and "Cell Phone Bandit"
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"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.
Nov 13, 2005
cbs4denver.com, CO
________________
Washington (US):
Who was this woman who was so busy yakking on her cell phone that she couldn't stop to rob a bank? The police in Northern Virginia say they're looking for a woman who's been holding up banks while chatting on her phone.
CBS News correspondent Joie Chen reports Saturday morning police moved in on a young woman overheard pulling a hold-up in the same neighborhood.
Police charge the woman with armed robbery, but Chen reports it may be a copycat crime. The woman didn't have a phone, but looks similar and had the same method — a note, a claim to be armed, and a bold, daylight strike.
___________________________
See Also:
Police: No Connection Between Robber and "Cell Phone Bandit"
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"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.
Nov 13, 2005
