Police: Mom, Twin Daughters in Bank Heist
— -- Police Keeping Up With the Jones…
B A R N E G A T, N.J. — Forget the Sopranos; police say there's a new crime family in New Jersey.
Kathleen Wortman Jones, 34, and her twin 14-year-old girls robbed a Sun National Bank in Barnegat Township, N.J., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, police allege.
"I have never seen anything like this," said Capt. Joseph Manger, of the Barnegat Township police.
The two girls walked into the bank around noon, one with a nylon stocking over her face and the other with a black ski mask, say authorities. Witnesses said one suspect wore her dark hair in a white or pink headband. The other had blond hair pulled into a small ponytail.
They allegedly brandished a chrome semi-automatic handgun and demanded cash. Bank officials at first thought it was a prank.
"What is this, a joke?" branch manager Linda Williams told The Associated Press.
"No, we ain't [expletive] joking," one of them replied, according to Williams. "Give us your money."
The girls left with $3,500 in cash in a plastic bag, and ran out to a waiting gray Buick.
"As they were running through the parking lot, one of them pulled their mask off," said Detective Michael Duffy.
Police arrested the family on Friday at their home.
A 16-year-old stepsister and Jones' husband, Kevin Jones, 37, were also charged.
"He spent some of the money and he did aid in destroying some of the evidence," Duffy said.
The family told police they had money problems and were facing foreclosure on their home.
Oldest Heist on the Books?
I R V I N E, Calif. — He's an oldie but no-goodie, police say.
Martin Randall, 73, strolled into the Cathay Bank in Irvine around lunch time on Friday, Nov. 1, and gave the teller a note demanding cash, police say.
"The teller, in fear for her safety, complied with the suspect's request and placed money from the cash drawer into a handbag the suspect was carrying," said Irvine police Sgt. Mike Hamel.
But older apparently didn't mean wiser in Randall's case. He left with about $1,000 in cash, and drove off in his own 1998 black Plymouth Neon, Hamel said. Witnesses wrote down Randall's license plate number as he sped away.
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