Crime
Suspected N.Va. bank robber nabbed in Ga.
By: Freeman Klopott
Examiner Staff Writer
November 24, 2009
This time, when Quenten Terrell Sims ran, he ran all the way to Georgia.
Sims, who is suspected of robbing four Northern Virginia banks, was taken into custody last week by DeKalb County police in Georgia, Arlington County police said.
In February 1998, Sims -- also known as Prince Khalil Shabazz -- was arrested with a bag of cash while he waited for a train at Metro's Clarendon stop. He later pleaded guilty to robbing a Virginia Commerce Bank 20 minutes before he was caught after a Metro rider overheard Sims talking about the cash and alerted police.
Sims was released from prison in 2006 and is now wanted on suspicion of violating his parole, among other things.
Arlington police say he returned to his old stomping ground in Clarendon, robbing banks there on Oct. 17 and Oct. 20. He's accused of robbing a third bank near the Pentagon on Oct. 26. Police say he started the run by robbing a Fairfax County bank Oct. 10 in the Beacon Hill area. In all those cases, police say he operated much as he did in 1998, passing a note to a teller and fleeing with a bag of cash. Sims is being held without bail in DeKalb County, an Atlanta suburb. He was caught Nov. 16, the same day he was profiled in The Examiner. For more information about Washington-area bank robberies, visit bankbandits.org.
