Robbing a Bank Nearby? Give Me a Ring

By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Who hasn’t been annoyed at someone getting a phone call in the middle of a movie, or at the theatre, or in a nice restaurant … you get the picture (all right, if you were the one getting the call you might not have been annoyed).

Apparently some people are so addicted to their cell phones they can’t even stop talking long enough to finish robbing a bank. In northern Virginia, police are looking for just such a person.

“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 November 4, in Ashburn, the robber showed the teller a gun. Source: CNN.

We Say: Yes, that is a picture of the robber on a security camera. Is she actually talking to someone? It might just be a cover. On the other hand, if she is talking to someone I’d love to hear the conversation.