Article: 'Cell Phone' Bank Heist Suspect Is Denied Bond

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. ...

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