Posted on 03/21/2009 10:57:59 PM PDT by llevrok
Most robbery investigations won’t be this easy.
The first bank robbery to ever hit Ocean Shores ended 15 minutes after it began Friday when the suspect called 911 to confess.
Ocean Shores Police have arrested a 39-year-old Copalis Beach woman on suspicion of first-degree robbery after tracing her call.
Police said the woman walked into the Timberland Savings Bank along Damon Road at about 1:30 p.m. Friday.
“Witnesses said that the female robber presented a demand note indicating that she had a gun and left with an undisclosed amount of money,” police said in a news release.
The woman fled east in a silver car as law enforcement responded to the scene. Several minutes later, a woman called 911 to report she had robbed the bank.
Officers traced the call to a cell phone east of the bank where they found the woman sitting in her car still talking to a 911 operator.
“She was taken into custody less than 15 minutes after the robbery and all the money was recovered,” police said. “No weapon was recovered.”
Police said the woman admitted to the crime and denied ever having a weapon. She does not appear to be connected to any other robberies.
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Guess they don’t use the exploding dye packs any more? WA probabaly banned them because the dye causes cancer or something.
Why do I feel like kicking a field goal?
If I was a Judge, and sitting on this case, I would give her
5yrs probation. No weapon, and a guilty conscience so great that she called the cops on herself after pulling off the robbery means she is not likely to be any threat to society.
She may be an ex convict wanting to return. It happens.
I suppose that does happen....would have to be a form of mental illness....if this is the case, then this is really a sad episode :-(
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Well, people do get hooked on the prison system. I mean, really, after 5-10 years it would be hard for anyone to re-assimilate into society, especially after establishing an identity in prison then coming back to the real world. It falls under the psychological condition “institutionalised”, where the individual comes to depend on a social system so much they find it hard to exist without. Shell shock could be classified as a very extreme form of the same condition, where the soldiers involved in the trenches (for example) for 4-5 years suddenly find it hard to attempt to go back to “normal” life after facing death and a different social hierarchy for so long.
I grew up in Hoquiam. When I saw your name some months ago, I said to my self , “Ha! Another renegade mossback!”
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