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Glove-Wearing Pregnant Woman Charged In Titusville Bank Robbery

Posted: 7:44 am EDT July 30, 2008Updated: 10:34 am EDT July 30, 2008

Titusville police arrested a woman they said robbed a credit union while wearing yellow rubber dish washing gloves. Police said they arrested Erica Smith at a home on Booker Street (see map) early Wednesday morning.


IMAGES FROM ARREST: Pregnant Woman Taken Into Police Custody
RAW ARREST VIDEO: Bank Robbery Suspect In Police Custody
VIDEO REPORT: Suspected Bank Robber Arrested After Eyewitness Tip
SURVEILLANCE IMAGES: Images From Surveillance Show Female Bank Robber
RAW SURVEILLANCE: Woman Wearing Gloves Robs Titusville Bank

Investigators believe Smith is the same woman seen in surveillance pictures (see pictures) from a robbery at the Community Educators Credit Union on US-1 on Tuesday. Officers tracked her down through a partial tag number that an eyewitness at the bank provided to investigators.

Investigators said Smith is eight months pregnant and had a child in the car as well. When deputies first reported a robbery at the Community Educators Credit Union on Washington Avenue in Titusville, they said the woman robber escaped in a car with a young child inside.

Police don't think the woman was just trying to hide her dishpan hands when she walked into the Community Educators Credit Union (watch surveillance) wearing what appeared to be large rubber gloves. They believe the woman was doing everything she could to hide her identity, fingerprints and even DNA.

"Somebody that goes as far as to put the latex gloves on and wear the hat, the sunglasses, they thought enough to at least disguise themselves and try to cover up evidence," said Detective Warren VanVuren, Titusville Police Department.

Authorities said nobody had much time to question why she was there with all the accessories, because within a moment of walking in the bank she was face to face with the bank teller.

"She entered the bank and pushed her way to the front of the line," VanVuren said.

Now the pregnant mother and suspected bank robber is in the custody of the Titusville Police Department.

Most bank robbers are men, but there have been three bizarre robberies involving women in Central Florida this year.

Last month, a 40-year-old woman was arrested after an Orange County robbery. It turned out her family in Missouri had filed a missing persons report looking for her (read report).

In February, a woman robbed a Longwood bank with mascara smeared over her face (read report). In April, a woman was dressed all in white and smelled like gasoline when she robbed a Lake Mary bank (read report).

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