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In four of the holdups, 30-year-old Samantha Simone Dixon drove the getaway car for her boyfriend, 28-year-old Lamont Moseley, authorities said.
Dixon also pulled her own job, they said, and was recorded on surveillance video taking an estimated $1,200 in cash from a Maywood Avenue TD Bank branch on March 27. Moseley was waiting for her and they took off together, police said.
Two other robberies occurred in Haledon and Totowa — both TD Bank branches, the same as in Bergen County.
Moseley also confessed to a December 2011 robbery of a Paterson branch, authorities said.
All told, the couple are accused of taking more than $10,000. Both were arrested as they emerged from their River Street apartment in Paterson on May 29.
The indictment returned Friday charges them with a Feb. 26 robbery of $2,800 from the TD branch on River Road in Fair Lawn and a March 15 holdup of a TD branch on Midland Avenue and Market Street in Elmwood Park, as well as the Maywood robbery.
Moseley, who the indictment says threatened tellers in the Fair Lawn and Elmwood Park heists, remained held on $100,000 bail, and Dixon on $75,000 bail, in the Bergen County Jail.
Working closely with Fair Lawn and Hackensack police, Maywood detectives first pegged Dixon, Maywood Detective Sgt. Timothy Moran told CLIFFVIEW PILOT in May.
“We thought there might be a boyfriend-girlfried connection there,” he said.
The investigators eventually identified Moseley, who fit the description of a 6-foot, 170-pound man who wore a hoodie and dark cap while robbing the other banks.
The 6-10% of all bank robbers who are women believe they’ve chosen a “fairly safe kind of crime to commit in terms of personal risk,” said Robert McCrie, a professor of security management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan.
Some get nicknames, which experts say help keep their images in the public eye — from the glamorous “Starlet Bandit” who robbed a California bank to Atlanta’s giggling “Barbie Bandits” to the “Cell Phone Bandit,” who hit four banks in Virginia while talking on her cellphone several years ago.
Moseley and Dixon were caught so quickly that no one bothered to give them nicknames.
MUGSHOTS/SURVEILLANCE IMAGES: Courtesy MAYWOOD PD
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