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ACWORTH, Georgia (AP) -- Two teenage women suspected of donning sunglasses
as they robbed a supermarket bank branch were arrested along with a bank
teller following a brief car chase Thursday, authorities said.
The women, both 19, and the bank teller were stopped by police in Douglas
County, about 20 miles from where the robbery occurred Tuesday afternoon,
said sheriff's Maj. M.O. Harper.
Ashley Miller and Heather Johnson, and bank teller Benny Herman Allen III,
22, were charged with felony theft and marijuana possession, said Cobb
County Police spokeswoman Cassie Reece.
Another man, Michael Chastang, 27, also was arrested in the case and charged
felony theft and drug trafficking.
"It was a conspiracy to take money from the bank," Reece said. "They were in
on it."
Surveillance video shows the robbers laughing and smiling as they handed a
teller a note demanding money. Police initially thought the girls were as
young as 16.
Police declined to release the contents of the robbers' note and the amount
of money stolen.
The store is in a strip mall in an upscale west Cobb residential
neighborhood, about 28 miles north of Atlanta.
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as they robbed a supermarket bank branch were arrested along with a bank
teller following a brief car chase Thursday, authorities said.
The women, both 19, and the bank teller were stopped by police in Douglas
County, about 20 miles from where the robbery occurred Tuesday afternoon,
said sheriff's Maj. M.O. Harper.
Ashley Miller and Heather Johnson, and bank teller Benny Herman Allen III,
22, were charged with felony theft and marijuana possession, said Cobb
County Police spokeswoman Cassie Reece.
Another man, Michael Chastang, 27, also was arrested in the case and charged
felony theft and drug trafficking.
"It was a conspiracy to take money from the bank," Reece said. "They were in
on it."
Surveillance video shows the robbers laughing and smiling as they handed a
teller a note demanding money. Police initially thought the girls were as
young as 16.
Police declined to release the contents of the robbers' note and the amount
of money stolen.
The store is in a strip mall in an upscale west Cobb residential
neighborhood, about 28 miles north of Atlanta.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/02/girl.bandits.ap/index.html
