Posted on 09/29/2018 8:41:40 PM PDT by Passaic
They had a habit of targeting banks in disguises. Over three months last year, the two young women went to four of them in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Once they dressed as nuns. Other times they wore hijab head coverings. Twice, they fled banks empty handed.
At another, they tried to pry open an ATM machine with a screwdriver. They did not complete the withdrawal.
They actually robbed a Spencer Savings branch in Garfield, New Jersey, at gunpoint, on Sept. 27, 2017.
Their take was $2,900.
Now, Melisa Aquino Arias, 23, of Passaic and Swahilys Pedraza-Rodriguez, 19, of New Haven, Connecticut face possible prison sentences for their capers.
Arias pleaded guilty to three crimes in federal court in Newark Friday and admitted her role in in the bank spree, the U.S. Attorney's Office of New Jersey announced.
Pedraza-Rodriguez pleaded guilty to the same crimes in April - bank robbery, attempted bank robbery and conspiracy to steal from one.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Like a nun with a gun
I’m wonderful fun
Genesis - Happy The Man
The writer of this news article is dumb. Red being a bank IS federal crime so they are not Possibly facing jail time. They are facing a crapload of federal and state time, as in up to life.
I hate “sucking” amateur reporters. I hate stupid sucking reporters even more.
My editor would have kicked my butt out of the office if I had written like that.
Re dressing as a nun, that sums up most of their crime spree and results, they got none, except the upcoming jail time.
This sounds like a bad remake of “Nuns on the Run - Part Duh”!
18. I didn’t write this comment but someone did a fairly good job of imitating me. I never use the word “handcuffs”.
I would have said that the last words they heard were “Cuff them Father Dano”.
23 to all. The first line should have read “robbing a bank”, not the crap that Spell check inserted, even after I had reviewed it myself.
Gremlins in the machine?
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