Slow Food Service Stops Alleged Bank Robbers
Alleged Accomplice Gets 'Held Up' At Restaurant
UPDATED: 8:47 a.m. EDT April 12, 2002
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Franklin County sheriff's deputies have advice for would-be bank robbers: "On the way to a hold-up, don't stop for food."
Deputies arrested a woman Thursday in connection with a bank robbery along with one of her male accomplices.
Deputies said that Nancy Rojas, 46 , went into the bank to rob it. That is when one of the men in the getaway car got hungry and ran to a nearby Skyline Chili.
"She came out with the money, and he got left behind because he didn't get his food quick enough," Deputy Zachary Scott said.
Authorities said that Rojas and John J. Waters, 23, drove away, abandoning the man at the restaurant.
Before they sped away, the dye pack, hidden with the cash, exploded, and some of the marked money blew away.
A witness gave deputies the car's license plate and Rojas was later arrested at an apartment.
Waters turned himself to police late Thursday night.
Detectives are searching for the third suspect.
Deputies said that Nancy Rojas, 46 , went into the bank to rob it. That is when one of the men in the getaway car got hungry and ran to a nearby Skyline Chili.
"She came out with the money, and he got left behind because he didn't get his food quick enough," Deputy Zachary Scott said.
Authorities said that Rojas and John J. Waters, 23, drove away, abandoning the man at the restaurant.
Before they sped away, the dye pack, hidden with the cash, exploded, and some of the marked money blew away.
A witness gave deputies the car's license plate and Rojas was later arrested at an apartment.
Waters turned himself to police late Thursday night.
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