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Article: 'Cell Phone' Bank Heist Suspect Is Denied Bond
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- The Washington Post
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- November 30, 2005
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Candice Martinez, the woman accused of being the "cell phone
bandit," had her suitcases packed and was ready to flee to Texas or
New Mexico with the help of her boyfriend's family when she was
arrested in Centreville, an FBI agent testified yesterday.
After her arrest, Martinez was shown a surveillance photograph of
a woman robbing a Wachovia bank in Vienna on Oct. 12 while chatting
on her cell phone, agent Timothy Pak said. "She identified herself as
the bank robber," Pak said during a bond hearing in U.S. District
Court in Alexandria.
After Pak's testimony, a federal magistrate judge denied bond to
Martinez, 19, and sent her case to a grand jury for possible
indictment next month. ...