'Pink Lady Bandit' and accomplice arrested in N.C. after string of East Coast bank robberies: FBI
07/29/2019 5:05 pm PDT
via WGHP:
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WGHP) -- The alleged "Pink Lady Bandit" is in custody.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation Charlotte Division announced two arrests Monday after a string of bank robberies on the East Coast.
Circe Baez, 35, and Alexis Morales, 28, were arrested on Sunday. Investigators found the two at the Charlotte Speedway Inn and Suites in Charlotte.
The FBI believes they are responsible for at least four bank robberies.
The first was on July 20 at an Orrstown Bank in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Three days later, a robbery was reported at M&T Bank in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The next day, the robbers allegedly struck again at a Southern Bank in Ayden, North Carolina. The last reported robbery was at a BB&T in Hamlet, North Carolina, on Friday.
They were taken to the Pitt County Detention Center where they're both held under a $4 million bond.
