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Article: FBI Says Cell Phone Pair Stole $48,000; Suspects in Robberies Held Without Bond
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- The Washington Post
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- November 19, 2005
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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 ...