The suspected Pink Lady Bandit and an alleged accomplice have been taken into custody, NPR reports. Over the last two weeks, a woman approached tellers at four banks along the East Coast with notes demanding money. She often wore large sunglasses, yoga pants and a baseball cap and sometimes carried a hot pink purse. Circe Baez, 35, and alleged accomplice Alexis Morales, 38, have been accused of the string of robberies in Pennsylvania, Delaware and North Carolina. The FBI said they were nabbed at a hotel in Charlotte, N.C., on Sunday.
“The pink lady is changing her trademark to an orange jumpsuit,” the Pitt County Sheriff said in a Facebook post, praising local and federal officials who achieved a “Great and quick outcome!” The first robbery was in Carlisle, Pa., on July 20. The suspects are accused of robbing a bank in Delaware’s Rehoboth Beach three days later. They then allegedly traveled to North Carolina and robbed a bank in the center part of the state the next day. They then traveled about 180 miles inland to Hamlet, where they are accused of robbing the fourth bank. Both suspects are being held on $4 million bond.