Women dressed as men may have formed bandit posse (cool!)

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http://www.southeasttexaslive.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16978557&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512588&rfi=6

Women put on disguises, pack pistols
By: F.A. KRIFT, The Enterprise
07/28/2006

Gun-slinging females, some sporting fake beards, have conducted four stickups in Jasper County in the past 11 weeks in what investigators are calling an unusual, baffling crime spree.

The robberies started May 5 when a white woman wearing sunglasses, a cowboy hat and fake facial hair held up the Conoco gas station in the Brookshire Brothers' parking lot in Jasper, detectives said. Jasper Police Detective Gerald Hall said the woman took $3,500 after she raised her shirt and flashed a handgun stuffed in the waistline of her pants. "She was trying to look like a man," Hall said.

A month later, the Tobacco Barn in the same parking lot was robbed of about $3,500. The bandit staged the stickup as an employee was about to make the night deposit, Hall said. Andrea Lindsey, 32, of Jasper, was arrested after being picked out of a lineup, he said. Lindsey on Thursday was in Jasper County Jail and unable to make a $51,000 bond, he said. Since her arrest, two more robberies have occurred, possibly carried out by a group of women who have formed a quasi-gang of bandits.

On July 17, the Conoco station was held up a second time, and the female robber wore a baseball hat, sunglasses and bandages on her face, Hall said. She also had her arm in a sling and never showed a weapon, but the gas station employee met her demands. Two days later, a female wearing an arm sling flashed a handgun and robbed a Kirbyville Conoco gas station, investigators said. That woman's hair was different from that of the robber in the Jasper stickup, leading investigators to believe she was wearing a wig, authorities said.

Authorities Thursday were questioning suspects, with Brookshire Brothers offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to an identification and arrest. "The only thing that is kind of strange is nobody is talking about it for 2,500 bucks," he said. Hall can't remember a woman being involved in a local robbery case in his 15 years on the force. His captain, he said, has been on the force for at least 25 years and can remember only one or two.

Jasper Police Chief Todd Hunter was puzzled as well. "I don't know what's going on in the water here," he said.
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I think I could grow up to be a cross-dressing bandit. I bet I'd make a good one.