{"id":16196,"date":"2011-01-18T11:33:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T19:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/citizens-help-kent-police-arrest-woman-53-for-bank-robbery\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T22:20:36","slug":"citizens-help-kent-police-arrest-woman-53-for-bank-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/citizens-help-kent-police-arrest-woman-53-for-bank-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens help Kent Police arrest woman, 53, for bank robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Police <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwlocalnews.com\/south_king\/ken\/news\/113628954.html\">arrested a 53-year-old Des Moines woman following the robbery of an East Kent credit union Jan. 11.<\/a> No one was hurt in the robbery and police were able to recover a quantity of evidence and money.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were sent to the Alaska USA Credit Union shortly after 4 p.m. The bank branch is located inside a Fred Meyer store at 10201 S.E. 240th Street. Reports indicated that a woman entered the bank and demanded money before fleeing. Another customer in the bank was alerted to the robbery and followed the suspect outside.<\/p>\n<p>As the woman walked away from the scene, that witness pointed her out to two men passing by in a vehicle. He instructed them to follow the woman while he returned to the bank. Those men called 9-1-1 while she entered a car and drove away from the scene. They provided a description and directions to police dispatchers who relayed the information to responding officers. Police caught up to the woman within minutes and took her into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is currently being held on Robbery charges at the City of Kent Corrections Facility. Detectives will be following up with witnesses today, as well as conducting a search of the woman\u2019s car. Police are also comparing notes with the FBI and other police agencies to see if the suspect may be involved in other robberies.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Police credit the quick arrest in this case to the observations and actions of several witnesses. Kent Police Lieutenant Tracey Gurr noted &#8220;While we don\u2019t encourage the public to follow criminals because of the danger they present, we greatly appreciate the efforts these witnesses made in guiding our officers to the suspect&#8221;. As a general rule, Kent Police ask that people with information about criminal activity obtain detailed descriptions and promptly report their information to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Police arrested a 53-year-old Des Moines woman following the robbery of an East Kent credit union Jan. 11. No one was hurt in the robbery and police were able to recover a quantity of evidence and money.<br \/>\nOfficers were sent to the Alaska USA Credit Union shortly after 4 p.m. The bank branch is located inside a Fred Meyer store at 10201 S.E. 240th Street. Reports indicated that a woman entered the bank and demanded money before fleeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16196"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}