Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
Navahcia Edwards, 23, was arrested for bank robbery after allegedly dressing up as a nun to rob a TCF Bank branch in Palos Heights, Ill. She and an accomplice did a credible job, getting away with $120,000 in cash from the bank’s vault. But she was caught because she left the receipt for two “Adult Funny Nun Costumes” and two “Nun on the Run Adult Masks” in a rental car used as a getaway vehicle. Edwards needed cash to pay restitution for the $20,000 she embezzled from her job as a teller at Chase Bank in Country Club Hills, prosecutors say. Edwards’ boyfriend is being questioned by the FBI as the accomplice; surveillance cameras recorded him coming to the TCF bank a few hours before the robbery, and lifting his leg up to the counter as if to see if he could jump it. During questioning, agents say, he broke down, crying “My life is ruined.” (RC/Chicago Tribune) ...Actually, that happened when he met Edwards.Original Publication Date: 31 July 2011
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