#7 - Swahilys Pedraza Rodriguez and Melissa Aquino Arias
From August to September of 2017, two women were accused of carrying out three separate
bank robberies, one of which they committed while dressed as nuns. Swahilys Pedraza Rodriguez,
of New Haven, Connecticut, and Melissa Aquino Arias, of the Dominican Republic,
attempted their first heist on August the 28th when they targeted the branch of Citizens Bank
in Tannersville, Pennsylvania. The two women, one of whom was armed with a handgun,
entered the building while donning nuns’ habits, and immediately demanded cash from the bank’s
employees. An alarm was subsequently triggered, prompting the robbers to flee without collecting
any money. Rodriguez and Arias then plotted two additional robberies, both of which were
perpetrated in New Jersey. The first occurred in late September of 2017, at the Spencer
Savings Bank, in Garfield. The women, dressed in headscarves, successfully robbed the bank while
holding the tellers at gunpoint. On October the 15th, they descended on an NVE Bank in Teaneck
for their final robbery attempt. They initially inquired about opening an account with the bank,
but were soon recognized by an employee as the alleged Garfield robbers. The workers contacted
the police and the women fled the scene, but they were taken in custody later that day.
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#6 - Sandeep Kaur
A registered nurse from California performed a string of bank robberies over the course of
two months in 2014. Following Sandeep Kaur’s widely-publicized crime spree, the FBI gave
her the nickname the “Bombshell Bandit”. She’d incurred a substantial amount of debt
in the years leading up to the robberies. Since November of 2010, Kaur had developed a gambling
habit after traveling to Las Vegas with her cousin for her 21st birthday. She started planning
monthly trips to Vegas and subsequently got involved with a variety of moneylenders,
who bankrolled her worsening addiction. With mortgage payments to make and exorbitant gambling
debts to pay off, Kaur’s financial situation continued to deteriorate at the beginning of 2014.
She ultimately resorted to robbing a bank after a loan shark threatened to hurt her family in the
event that she was unable to pay what she owed to them. The first robbery occurred in May of 2014,
at a bank in Valencia, when Kaur outfitted herself in a blue tracksuit, a pair of oversized
sunglasses and a wig. She handed the teller a note that stated she would detonate a bomb
if the worker failed to comply with her demands. Kaur made off with $21,200 during her first heist,
which would be a larger sum than those obtained during any of the other three robberies to which
she’d eventually pleaded guilty. She was finally caught by police, in late July of 2014,
after robbing a bank in St. George, Utah. She led officers on a high-speed chase
that spanned multiple states and ultimately came to a stop in Nevada. Kaur was sentenced to
66 months in prison for her crimes and was also ordered to pay fines that amounted to $250,000.
#5 - Iconic Facce A woman by the name of Iconic Facce was arrested
in connection to a robbery at the BancorpSouth branch in Gulfport, Mississippi. In March of 2019,
Facce, aged 37, walked into the bank completely unarmed and handed one of the tellers a note
demanding cash. She managed to get away with an unspecified amount of money,
but the bank’s employees were able to provide law enforcement officials with detailed descriptions
of the robber during the ensuing investigation. The workers recounted that Facce looked as if
she’d recently undergone plastic surgery to her cheeks, as they seemed to have been artificially
enhanced in some way. Multiple tellers recognized Facce from a photo lineup shown to them by police,
and the woman was consequently arrested at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston, Texas.
The suspect had returned to the United States following a brief trip to Mexico,
where it’s believed she’d used the stolen money to fund further surgical alterations
to her face. Authorities learned that Facce had previously robbed an Alabama bank in 2008,
and was then convicted under her birth name, Jimmy Maurice Lewis. For that crime,
Lewis had served 51 months in federal prison, after which she legally changed her name to Iconic
Facce. Following her second robbery, Facce was sentenced to the maximum of 15 years behind bars.
#4 - Samantha Wyatt
The US Bank in Dillsboro, Indiana, was robbed by a 26-year-old woman from Ohio, on November the 25th
of 2019. Samantha Wyatt entered the building alone and slipped a note to one of the tellers. It read
“take everything out of the top and bottom drawer, and tell me to have a great day”,
and she left the bank with an undisclosed amount of money. A few hours later, local police released
a picture of the suspect that was taken from the bank’s surveillance footage. On Thanksgiving Day,
the authorities received an anonymous tip from someone who believed Wyatt to have been the
perpetrator of the robbery. Wyatt was brought in for an interview with investigators, during which
she claimed not to have left the state of Ohio on the day of the crime. Butler County sheriff’s
deputies subsequently executed a search warrant on Wyatt’s vehicle and found three money bands
commonly used by banks to wrap large bundles of cash. It was also revealed that Wyatt had searched
for directions to the US Bank on the day it was robbed, and she ultimately admitted to the crime
on December the 9th. She told the authorities that she’d parked at a nearby church and removed her
license plate prior to the robbery. After escaping with the cash, she reattached the plate and drove
back to Ohio. She was taken into custody at the Dearborn County Law Enforcement Center
and faced felony robbery charges. #3 - Sarah Crosby
After robbing a bank in Laurel, Delaware, a young woman from North Carolina
led police officers on a pursuit across state lines, while her 4-year-old son was in the car
with her. Sarah Crosby, aged 21, carried out the robbery at the Bank of Delmarva on the morning
of June the 30th of 2014. She reportedly handed one of the tellers a stick-up note
that indicated she was armed before fleeing with the cash in a white sedan,
which was also carrying her young son. She was pursued by officers from multiple Delaware police
departments as she made her way down Route 13 towards Maryland. Once the chase crossed into the
neighboring state, law enforcement agencies from Maryland became involved in the high-speed pursuit
as well. Crosby eventually ran over a set of spike strips that had been planted to intercept her,
but continued to drive on her vehicle’s rims until officers were able to bring her to a controlled
stop on the Salisbury bypass. The weapon used in the robbery was found inside Crosby’s car,
as was the stolen money. Crosby faced charges in connection to the theft as well as the ensuing
chase, during which she collided with three other vehicles, including a Delmar police cruiser.
Fortunately, her child wasn’t harmed during the incident, and he was taken into protective custody
following his mother’s arrest. #2 - Shelby Taylor Wyse
After witnessing a woman taking out $75,000 in cash from her account, a bank teller from Houston,
Texas instructed two accomplices to target her in a violent robbery. 25-year-old Shelby Taylor Wyse
was an employee at Wallis State Bank at the time of the incident, which took place on August the
17th of 2018. Wyse was stationed near the teller window at which a bank patron carried out a cash
withdrawal for $75,000. Wyse could be seen on the bank’s surveillance tapes watching the woman
intently as she conducted the transaction with another teller. At the exact moment the customer
left the bank with the money, Wyse pulled out her cell phone and appeared to send a text message.
As police would later discover, the person who’d received the text was Wyse’s boyfriend,
Travonn Johnson. Wyse was orchestrating a plot to rob the woman of the sizable sum of cash
she had in her possession, which was meant for her family's gas station and check cashing business.
The robbery was executed by Johnson and an accomplice, later identified as Davis Dowell
Mitchell. The two perpetrators followed the woman to the gas station, in Jersey Village,
and ambushed her. The gas station’s security cameras captured the ensuing struggle,
during which the woman’s husband ran out to help her fight off the two men. Both victims were badly
beaten during the altercation, and Johnson could even be seen backing into them with his car. After
the robbers absconded with the cash, the woman and her husband both required hospitalization
for their injuries. Law enforcement was quick in tracking down Johnson and Mitchell from whom they
recovered the stolen money. Both men were arrested and charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly
weapon. Investigators also discovered that the car Johnson had used during the robbery was
registered to a rental car agency and had been leased by Wyse, who was also taken into custody
and charged with felony robbery. #1 - Elizabeth Jeanne Holt
Following a violent bank heist that resulted in the robber’s death during a shootout with law
enforcement, a woman was arrested for aiding in the execution of the crime and obstructing
the ensuing police investigation. The robbery in question took place at the Zions Bank in
St. George, Utah, on September the 11th of 2014. Benjamin Schroff, aged 37, walked into the bank
disguised in a blonde wig and fake beard while armed with a shotgun and a revolver. He stole an
unspecified amount of cash and subsequently took two female bank employees hostage.
Schroff fled with the money and the two hostages, in one of their cars, and soon became involved in
a high-speed chase with officers of the St. George Police Department. Schroff fired multiple rounds
at his pursuers, ultimately hitting three patrol cars in the process. As the chase continued,
local police encountered 38-year-old Elizabeth Jeanne Holt on the side of the road, near where
the pursuit was taking place. She claimed to have been feeding the horses at the nearby corral,
but officers asked her to leave the area. Schroff eventually jumped out of the stolen vehicle,
allowing his two hostages to flee to safety. He hid in the weeds and bushes near the Virgin River,
and law enforcement officials then released an emergency notification to all nearby residents,
who were advised to stay indoors until the fugitive was caught. St. George police were
finally able to locate Schroff after multiple hours of searching the area surrounding Washington
Fields. A shootout ensued during which the robber was killed. The authorities would later discover
that Holt was Schroff’s girlfriend and that she’d tried to help him. She was actually near
the location of the police chase in order to meet up with the bank robber and facilitate his escape
with the money. Investigators also learned that Holt was carrying the same ammunition used by
Schroff during the shootout, and that she’d sent Schroff’s teenage son to bury her rifle in the
desert immediately after her first encounter with the police. Holt was charged with four counts of
obstruction of justice and one count of aggravated robbery. She was consequently sentenced to
8 months at a correctional facility and was also ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.
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