A 45-year-old Lorton woman has been charged with robbing a Woodbridge bank, and police said they believe she may be the same woman who recently ripped off two banks in Fairfax.
Cynthia Crawford was arrested Friday morning, not long after police say she walked into a SunTrust Bank, implied she had a gun and displayed a note demanding cash. A bank employee took down her license plate number and she was pulled over about 30 minutes later driving north on Interstate 395.
Crawford’s picture is very similar to that of a woman captured by surveillance cameras in Fairfax, police said. That woman robbed a SunTrust Bank in Alexandria on July 15, and a Wachovia in Lorton on June 25.
Lone female bank robbers are rare, but Northern Virginia has recently had two female suspects: Crawford and Stephanie Nightingale, who’s accused of robbing two banks in June and early July.
