"OMG. That it SO TOTALLY Ashley and Heather robbing that bank! They're all like, 'Yah, hand it over' and stuff... it's totally them."
You beat me to it. However, this story has everyone's names and ages.
March 1, 2007 - Four people were arrested Thursday night in the robbery of a bank in a supermarket by two young women who made a splash with surveillance video showing them fashionably clad in sunglasses and smiling during the holdup.
A bank teller and two 19-year-old women were among those charged with theft, Cobb County Police spokeswoman Cassie Reece said. Another man also was arrested.
"It was a conspiracy to take money from the bank," Reece said. "They were in on it."
She said the two women, who she identified as Ashley Miller and Heather Johnson, and bank teller Benny Herman Allen III, 22, were stopped Thursday by police about 20 miles from where Tuesday's robbery occurred.
The fourth suspect was identified as Michael Chastang. Authorities did not immediately provide his age, hometown or other identification.
Douglas County Sheriff Maj. M.O. Harper said police from Cobb County, where the robbery took place at a Kroger's branch of a Bank of America, chased the trio into the neighboring county where deputies were called in to apprehend them. Harper said the three were immediately turned over to Cobb County authorities for questioning.
Images captured from the surveillance video by police show the robbers wore nothing but dark sunglasses to disguise their faces as they handed a teller a note demanding cash Tuesday afternoon.
Police also declined to release the contents of the robbers' note and the amount of money stolen. Spokesman officer Wayne Delk said only it was "considerable."
The store is in a strip mall in an upscale west Cobb residential neighborhood, about 28 miles north of Atlanta.
Source: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=bizarre&id=5084261
IIRC the teller arrested the day of the robbery on a warrant from another county.
The article has no pics!
Were they hot?
Well, there goes my theory about it being Irish Travellers from SC trying to pony up dowry money. Good thing I'm not in law enforcement.
Reminds me of the movie "Sugar and Spice".
Why in the world would these girls ruin their lives? Is this stunt just a big joke to them ala "The Simple Life." They will be felons and probably spend time in the clink. What a waste. I feel bad for their parents.
Their parents never should have named them Ashley and Heather.
I refuse to take any news story that uses the word "cahoots" seriously!
"OMG. That it SO TOTALLY Ashley and Heather robbing that bank! They're all like, 'Yah, hand it over' and stuff... it's totally them."
The next day, the child left with the bag of small bills and a note that said, "Here's the money, but I can't believe one blonde would do this to another."
Because it was an inside job, Ashley Miller and Heather Johnson, both of Fulton County, will be charged with theft and not bank robbery. The penalty for a bank robbery, said Cobb police Officer Wayne Delk, would have been much steeper.
The women were pulled over Thursday afternoon in Douglas County, police said. A man who was with them in the gray Nissan — Michael Chastang — has also been arrested, although police did not say how he was connected to the robbery or release any further information about him.
After hours of questioning the women, detectives announced the arrest late Thursday night, and laid out what they said they had learned:
The women, dressed in tight jeans and designer sunglasses, smiled and giggled as they walked up to a teller at the Mars Hill Road Kroger. They handed him a note, got an undisclosed but "substantial" sum of money and strolled out.
Book deal, movie, Playboy spread, and TV interviews coming.
They will be set for life.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0228073bandits1.html
Bug-Eyed Bandits Caught
Female duo, bank teller nabbed after surveillance photos see light
MARCH 1--Police tonight arrested two young women, a bank teller, and a fourth accomplice in connection with Tuesday's robbery of a Bank of America branch in Acworth, Georgia. The inside job was allegedly pulled off by Ashley Nicole Miller and Heather Johnston, both 19, with the assistance of bank employee Benny Herman Allen, 22, and Michael Chastang, 27. While the incident appeared to be a bank robbery, cops now consider it a felony theft and have charged the quartet accordingly. Miller and Johnson, pictured left to right in the mug shots below, were captured by a bank surveillance camera as they stood smiling at a counter after handing a teller a note demanding money. The women (both of whom live in neighboring Fulton County) and their male cohorts were arrested less than two days after Cobb County Police Department officials circulated the below surveillance photos showing the women wearing disguises consisting solely of oversized sunglasses (the kind favored by Hollywood starlets). The group was apprehended with the aid of tips that poured into police from citizens who saw the bank camera photos. They are currently being booked into the Cobb County jail. Click here to read the Cobb County Police Department press release announcing the four arrests. (3 pages)
