Wednesday, April 12, 2000
Gun-toting woman sought in bank holdup
BY Janice Morse
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HAMILTON — A bank was robbed here Tuesday, but not by a gunman.
Police say a gun-toting female — a rarity among bank robbers — fled with money from the First National Bank of Southwest Ohio just after noon.
Witnesses told police that a woman wearing a bandanna and carrying a full-sized automatic handgun entered the bank, at 2299 Peck Blvd., and took an undetermined amount of cash. Police had no surveillance photo of her available Tuesday.
The robber ran east from the bank and may have entered a blue van, police said.
The incident is the first Cincinnati-area bank robbery with a fe male suspect in at least a year and a half, said Ed Boldt, spokesman for the FBI's Cincinnati office.
Women made up just 9.7 percent of all arrested robbery suspects, according to FBI statistics for 1996.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call Hamilton police detectives at 868-5811, ext. 2002, or its public affairs section, ext. 2007.
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