Posted on 04/16/2008 7:32:43 AM PDT by NRA1995
McALLEN - A woman accused of robbing two banks this month gave investigators a vital clue to her identity Monday, when she passed a threatening note to a teller with her name and address on the back.
Investigators believe Maria Garcia, 33, scrawled the hold-up message on the back of a completed food stamp application moments before entering the Capital One Bank branch in downtown McAllen and making off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Officers arrested her less than two hours later by tracking her to the address on the form. They also linked her to a similar robbery earlier this month at a Capital One bank in Mission.
Once the tellers handed over the cash, Garcia stepped outside but didn't get far before an ink pack embedded in the money exploded, McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said.
They arrived Monday to find Garcia and an alleged accomplice - Ricardo Cavazos, 32 - trying to remove the license plates of a green Ford Expedition that police identified as their getaway vehicle.
A search of the SUV uncovered ink-stained clothing and money believed to have been taken from the McAllen bank, Longoria said.
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20 years or so behind bars should remove her from the gene pool. Can we stretch the rules to nominate her for the Darwin award?
Priceless.......................
on the plus side, she was at least trying to get off the gov’t handouts..
Priceless indeed. But I wonder how long it will take for the"Hope Peddling Party of Pickpockets" to blame this on "America" and on Bush in particular?
But now we will have to spend more dollars to keep this stupid b**** in a jail for 20 or more years.
Send this woman’s contact info to Barak Obama; if he gets elected, he’ll need a national security advisor of this caliber...
with our prison system, probably only 1-5.
Dare to be stupid! This has happened before, too, as at least one robber wrote his stick up note on the back on an envelope addressed to him. Stuff like this makes “America’s
Dumbest Criminals” (TV show, book)
“Police had been called to the residence for child custody disputes and Maria Garcia’s mother had filed a report with the department identifying her daughter as mentally challenged.”
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Well, you may be right, but this was Texas. 20 years for robbing a bank and 10 or less (with time off for good behavior) for killing someone while under the influence.
I heard about one guy who robbed a bank and the note was written on the back of one of his deposit slips.........
Yup! There’s another one.
Now that was funny
I think she was one of my clients back in the day. She looks familiar. I wonder if she has like 8 kids now.
Now there's a understatement.
Reminds me of the bank robbers in “Raising Arizona”:
Gale: All right, ya hayseeds, it’s a stick-up. Everybody freeze. Everybody down on the ground.
Feisty Hayseed: Well, which is it, young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? Mean to say, if’n I freeze, I can’t rightly drop. And if’n I drop, I’m a-gonna be in motion. You see...
Gale: Shut up!
Feisty Hayseed: Okay then.
Gale: Everybody down on the ground!
Evelle: Y’all can just forget that part about freezin’ now.
Gale: Better still to get down there.
Evelle: Yeah, y’all hear that, don’t ya?
Gale: Where’d all the tellers go?
Teller’s voices: We’re down here, sir.
Evelle: They’re on the floor as you commanded, Gale.
She'll probably serve 4 or 5 tops and at 33, I'd bet she's already a grandmother.
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