Seattle bank robbery suspect arrested 2 hours after heist
SEATTLE - A woman who robbed a bank in the International District on Saturday morning was arrested about two hours later south of downtown, police said.
The incident unfolded just before 9:30 a.m. Saturday when a woman walked into the Bank of America branch in the 500 block of South Jackson Street.
She passed a note to a teller implying she had a gun and threatened to kill bank employees if they didn’t comply with her demands for cash, said Detective Jeff Kappel of the Seattle police.
The woman fled the bank with an undetermined amount of money but was caught about two hours later south of downtown after an intensive search by patrol officers.
The suspect was interviewed by robbery detectives and booked into the King County Jail for investigation of robbery, Kappel said.
The investigation continues.
The incident unfolded just before 9:30 a.m. Saturday when a woman walked into the Bank of America branch in the 500 block of South Jackson Street.
She passed a note to a teller implying she had a gun and threatened to kill bank employees if they didn’t comply with her demands for cash, said Detective Jeff Kappel of the Seattle police.
The woman fled the bank with an undetermined amount of money but was caught about two hours later south of downtown after an intensive search by patrol officers.
The suspect was interviewed by robbery detectives and booked into the King County Jail for investigation of robbery, Kappel said.
The investigation continues.
we don't arrest "on investigation" of anything...we arrest based on probable cause. If we arrested everyone under investigation, we would run out of bed space quickly.
AH, The time of year, where more robberies happen, along with suicide. Glad she was caught.Â
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 @deadcandance In a perfect world every bank robber is a crackhead
@Larry*X*K @deadcandance I don't care what their reason is, it's a crime and they are criminals.
A level of desperation most of us will never know - hard to imagine what would drive a person to put it all on the line like that, against already heavy odds.
 @Throbbinhood You are correct, most of us will never know that level of desperation--but most of us who do know it, don't feel the need to rob a bank, realizing that won't fix the problems.
 @Throbbinhood Your bleeding heart is staining the carpet, stop it!
@Rockberry No bleeding heart - simply an observation from a different angle.
I guess I could have just plain torched her mercilessly in typical Throbbin' style, I 'spose...
 @Rockberry  @Throbbinhood What will be bleeding is the tax rolls, another criminal in prison.