{"id":2300,"date":"2007-05-08T10:53:12","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/bonnie_clyde_or_butch_cassidy.html"},"modified":"2007-05-08T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T18:53:12","slug":"bonnie_clyde_or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/bonnie_clyde_or.html","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie, Clyde Or . . . Butch Cassidy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Law enforcement officers cared very little about offending the bank robber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Was it Clyde? Or was it Bonnie?<\/p>\n

For a while yesterday, the cops were mired in gender confusion.<\/p>\n

Police contended with two wildly different descriptions of a midday bandit who robbed a Castleton Corners bank of $1,600.<\/p>\n

Cops finally zeroed in on a good description of their crook — a 200-pound, 5 foot, 5-inch-tall woman, wearing sunglasses, a red hat on backwards, and a suede jacket.<\/p>\n

She got in line, like everyone else at the Commerce Bank branch at 1818 Victory Blvd., then when she got to the teller, passed a note demanding cash, a police source said yesterday.<\/p>\n

She got the money in 10s and 20s, and ran toward Jewett Avenue.<\/p>\n

And as she made her escape, police scoured the area with a helicopter, while a police dispatcher wrestled with how to describe the robber over the air.<\/p>\n

“Give me one description, please! Thank you,” the dispatcher shouted over the police radio airwaves, just after two separate officers each insisted they had the right description — one thought the bandit was a woman, the other thought the crook was a 300-pound man.<\/p>\n

A veteran cop said the robber pulled the same type of job at the Commerce Bank at 2173 86th Street in Brooklyn at about 4:20 p.m. Saturday, despite initial reports that the robber in that job was male as well.<\/p>\n

“I get the impression she does have manly features,” the source said.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

One witness, a construction worker who wouldn’t give his name, insisted he saw a man, not a woman, “waddling out of the parking lot.”<\/p>\n

“They’ve been saying it’s a girl. I’m telling you, he wasn’t a girl. It was an old man . . . in his late 40s,” the witness said.<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s robbery comes just two days after a flamboyant, cigar-chomping robber who walked with a cane got a nearly $60,000 haul from a Richmond County Savings Bank branch in Great Kills.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(By the way, is there something going on in Staten Island lately that makes it such a target for bank robberies?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Law enforcement officers cared very little about offending the bank robber: Was it Clyde? Or was it Bonnie? For a while yesterday, the cops were mired in gender confusion. Police contended with two wildly different descriptions of a midday bandit who robbed a Castleton Corners bank of $1,600. Cops finally zeroed in on a good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}