Female bank robber strikes again
A woman believed to be responsible for a string of bank robberies in Fairfax County struck again Saturday, this time in the town of Vienna. Vienna police responded just after noon to a newly opened HSBC Bank at 214 Maple Ave., but the robber had already left with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The robber is described as a black female, 25-30 years old, 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds. She was wearing a dark shirt, dark scarf on her head, blue jeans and sunglasses. She presented a note, implied she had a weapon and demanded money from a teller.
The woman fits the description — both physically and in the way she carried out the crime — of a bank robber who struck three Fairfax County banks in less than two weeks. The FBI is assisting in the investigation.
Collision kills one, sends two to hospital
A two-vehicle collision early Sunday on Route 28 in Boyds killed one man and sent two to the hospital, Montgomery County police said. Just after 4 a.m., police said, the driver of an Infiniti Dirty Money Watch0 traveling north on Route 28 near the Whites Ferry Road intersection crossed the double yellow lines and collided with an Isuzu box truck headed in the opposite direction. The driver of the Infiniti, 40-year-old Michael Alan Stoos of Silver Spring, died at the scene. It is unclear why he crossed into opposing traffic. The driver and passenger of the box truck suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
D.C. officer found on street unresponsive
A D.C. police officer was taken to the hospital at about 11 a.m. Sunday after he was found unresponsive on a downtown street. The unidentified motorcycle officer was working an overtime detail at Fifth and H streets Northwest, police said, when he was discovered. Another officer started CPR, which continued in the ambulance as he was transported to Howard University Hospital. The officer was not involved in an accident, police said. No other details were immediately available.
Report: Gun in Pentagon shooting from Tenn.
A handgun used in the March 4 attack on the Pentagon came from the Memphis, Tenn., police department, the Associated Press reported Sunday. John Patrick Bedell, the Pentagon shooter, carried two 9 mm handguns — one a Ruger he had purchased at a gun show in Las Vegas. A Memphis police spokeswoman told the AP that the Ruger, seized in a 2005 traffic stop, was traded to a dealer three years later for a different gun that was better for police work. Bedell shot two Pentagon police officers before being killed by return fire.
– Compiled by Michael Neibauer
