The followup on the post yesterday:
Lower Merion police caught two suspected bank robbers who attempted a getaway via SEPTA yesterday afternoon.
A man who claimed he had a gun robbed the TD Bank at 401 W. Lancaster Ave., Haverford, at 12:54 p.m. and escaped on foot, police said. Pursuing police found paint from the bank money's exploded dye pack on the steps of the Haverford train station and arrested a man walking by himself about two blocks away, on Montgomery Avenue near Woodside Road, who had "traces of dye on his arm," a police news release said.
A witness at the train station told police the arrested man had been with another person who got on the eastbound R5. SEPTA held that train at the Ardmore station, and police arrested a woman passenger found with the bank's money, police said. Police did not release the names of the suspected robbers.
A man who claimed he had a gun robbed the TD Bank at 401 W. Lancaster Ave., Haverford, at 12:54 p.m. and escaped on foot, police said. Pursuing police found paint from the bank money's exploded dye pack on the steps of the Haverford train station and arrested a man walking by himself about two blocks away, on Montgomery Avenue near Woodside Road, who had "traces of dye on his arm," a police news release said.
A witness at the train station told police the arrested man had been with another person who got on the eastbound R5. SEPTA held that train at the Ardmore station, and police arrested a woman passenger found with the bank's money, police said. Police did not release the names of the suspected robbers.
Via the reliable source, this is how it went on the train:
A young African-American woman gets on at Haverford, carrying a drawstring sack. She sits down in front of a middle-aged black woman who is on her way home from work in Bryn Mawr. The older woman sees the young one looking around nervously, "talking with her eyes".
"Are you okay?", she asks.
"We just robbed a bank," she says confidingly. A beat to absorb this information. "We do it all the time out here. They don't have security in the banks."
A moment passes while the young woman continues to look agitated. A young white man notices and asks her what's wrong.
"Nothing," the young woman says.
The train is stopped in Ardmore and the police take her off. Later, the older African-American woman says, "Just because I'm black, she thinks it's okay to tell me she just robbed a bank?"
"Are you okay?", she asks.
"We just robbed a bank," she says confidingly. A beat to absorb this information. "We do it all the time out here. They don't have security in the banks."
A moment passes while the young woman continues to look agitated. A young white man notices and asks her what's wrong.
"Nothing," the young woman says.
The train is stopped in Ardmore and the police take her off. Later, the older African-American woman says, "Just because I'm black, she thinks it's okay to tell me she just robbed a bank?"
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