[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Pulling off the perfect bank heist isn't as easy as the movies make it seem, especially when the robber takes aim at five banks -- in the space of three weeks.This week, a 23-year-old Saudi-U.S. woman has been accused of doing just that.
Ranya al-Huthaili, who was enjugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
earlier this month on charges of robbing the five banks, is now set to remain in jug out of fear she will flee to Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, U.S. newspaper Star Tribune reported on Friday.
"She has been charged with bank robbery [and] telling the teller that she had a gun. She took $2,300," said Nadia Bilbassy-Charters, an Al Arabiya correspondent in Washington.
According to the newspaper, the FBI believes Huthaili robbed the Klein Bank in Minnesota on Aug. 15, the First State Bank of Wyoming in Minnesota on Aug. 23, the TCF Bank in the Cub Foods on Broadway Avenue W. in Forest Lake on Sept. 1 and the First State Bank and Trust in Wisconsin on Sept. 5.
Huthaili stole $2,300 from the Wisconsin bank. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
the money's identification markings led police to a shopping mall in Minneapolis where she bought a computer, the correspondent confirmed.
Not all the money was spent, however, and "nobody knows where the rest of the money is and the police didn't say," Bilbassy-Charters explained.