Police have released the latest picture of a woman suspected of robbing four Fairfax County banks since Feb. 26, including most recently a bank in Vienna.
In each case the woman passes a note to a teller that implies she has a weapon and demands cash. Authorities say she flees the area on foot and in at least one case, was spotted jogging as she made off with an undisclosed amount of cash. In none of the robberies has the woman displayed a weapon.
Some serial bank robbers target the same banking chain, but at different branches because they have a sense of the bank’s security procedures. But in this case, the woman has hit a different bank in each robbery.
Around noon on Saturday police say she ripped off an HSBC Bank at 214 Maple Ave. West. Just five days earlier she robbed a BB&T bank at 5105 Westfields Blvd. in Centreville. On March 2 it was a Northwest Federal Credit Union at 14419 Chantilly Crossing Lane in Chantilly. Her first known robbery was a Apple Federal Credit Union at 14260 Centreville Square.
The first three robberies were within five miles of each other, but the robber branched out by about 11 miles with Saturday’s robbery.
Police describe the robber as a black woman in her late 20s. She’s about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs around 180 pounds. In all four robberies she wore large black sunglasses and in two robberies she was wearing a head scarf.
The FBI has joined Fairfax County and Vienna police in the search for the robber.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Solvers at 866-411-TIPS(8477) or Fairfax County police at 703-691-2131.
