Article: FBI Says Cell Phone Pair Stole $48,000; Suspects in Robberies Held Without Bond

The accused cell phone bandit and her boyfriend netted $48,000 during four bank robberies in Northern Virginia and then planned to flee to Texas or New Mexico after their case attracted national attention, an FBI agent testified yesterday.

Candice R. Martinez and Dave C. Williams, both 19, made separate court appearances yesterday and were ordered held without bond. Martinez was arraigned in Loudoun County, where she is charged in the Nov. 4 holdup in Ashburn that yielded the now-infamous videotape of a bank robber who simply could not put down her phone.

Williams had a detention hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, where he is charged with bank robbery in an Oct. 12 holdup in ...

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