FBI re-examines area bank heist footage, determines second robber is a woman

Examiner Staff Writer 12/1/08

An FBI investigator told The Examiner that it was likely a man and a woman, and not two men as originally thought, who robbed a PNC Bank in Southeast Washington two weeks ago.

After taking a closer look at pictures, investigators now believe a suspect who stuck a pistol into a security guard’s side and ordered him to face the bank’s interior, might have been a woman who hid her physical characteristics behind a baggy gray sweatshirt.

The two robbers robbed the bank on the 300 block of 12th Street around 9:30 a.m. Nov. 14. The robber now believed to be a black woman used a black revolver and was wearing a ski mask. She would be the shorter of the two, about 5-foot-7, and weighed around 200 pounds.

The other robber, a black man, approached the tellers and demanded cash. He was 6 feet tall and weighed around 185 pounds.
Both robbers were between 30 and 40 years old and covered their faces with black ski masks. The armed suspect wore white tennis shoes.

Investigators said they do not believe the potential female robbers is connected to a series of bank robberies earlier this year in Northwest in which a male and female targeted independent banks, making off with more than $100,000.

The man in that suspected duo, Dewayne Anthony Edwards, was taken into custody last month after his DNA was found on crime scene evidence, including a fake beard he allegedly left next to a stolen car used as a getaway vehicle. The car had a pile of ink-stained cash on the passenger’s seat.

The female suspect in Northwest robberies remains at-large.

Anyone with information about the PNC robbery or any other bank robbery in the area should contact the FBI Washington Field Office at 202-278-2000, or the District of Columbia police at 800-673-2777. For additional information on other bank robberies in the area, go online to bankbandits.org.

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