Teller triggers alarm; bank-robbery suspect leaves without cash

Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 | 2:22 p.m.

Metro Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the person who reportedly tried to rob a bank Wednesday in the southwestern valley. Police said that about 11:25 a.m., the suspect went to a teller’s window at a bank in the area of South Rainbow Boulevard and West Warm Springs Road and presented a note demanding money. When the teller activated an alarm, the suspect – without any of the bank’s money – left quickly. Police describe the suspect as a black female in her 40's, about 5-feet-6 with a medium build and shoulder-length, straight, black hair. She was ...

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By unlv702 (Vegas Dlight)

Nov. 8, 2012

4:25 p.m.

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She forgot to smile.
By iwonder

Nov. 8, 2012

4:49 p.m.

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Very interesting that she has a pricey hair do and what appear to be well-manicured fake fingernails. And she is robbing a bank? I just don't get some people's priorities.
By ChunkyFlyRight

Nov. 8, 2012

6:48 p.m.

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Chunky says:

What an amateur! There's a Metro police substation about a block away. Finally decent surveillance camera images as well.

Not your typical bank robber profile either.

That's what Chunky thinks!
By TomD1228

Nov. 8, 2012

7:46 p.m.

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She should be picked up within a couple days.