The FBI is in search for a female bank robber who has been called the “Black Hoodie Bandit” since November.
The robber is suspected in nine robberies that have occurred in grocery store bank branches across Tarrant, Collin and Dallas counties.
According to a statement released to the press the FBI communicates that “In most instances, the suspect enters the bank and displays a note demanding money. After receiving an undisclosed amount of cash, witnesses have seen her leaving the scene in a silver car or PT Cruiser.”
The string of robberies began early November of 2014 when the Black Hoodie Bandit walked out with an undisclosed amount of money stolen from the First Convenience Bank inside a Kroger at 2350 SE Green Oaks Blvd. in Arlington, Texas. Then less than two weeks later the bandit hit another First Convenience Bank branch in a Grand Prairie Kroger.
Just before Christmas she robbed a Woodforest National Bank inside a Tom Thumb on Randol Mill Road in Arlington. The last robbery occurred in McKinney.
The “Black Hoodie Bandit” is described by witnesses as an African-American woman around 30 or 40 years old. She is only about 5-foot-2 and around 160 pounds. She has a beauty mark or piercing above the right side of her lip, according to FBI reports. She typically wears all black including oversized black-framed sunglasses and her signature black hoodie.
Citizens with information of the suspect’s identity or location may who can ID the suspect or knows her call the Dallas office of the FBI at 972-559-5000 The suspect should not be approached. A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information leading to her identification, arrest and indictment.
