4 arrested in North Seattle bank robbery FOX 13 Seattle

A woman accused of robbing banks across Seattle over the past year has been charged with seven counts of first-degree robbery and one count of attempted robbery, with prosecutors alleging she took personal pride in evading capture and bragging about her crimes. Leena Chang, 34, was arrested earlier.. SEATTLE - A 24-year-old woman has been arrested in a slew of bank robberies in the Seattle area, now charged with eight counts of first-degree robbery.

Seattle woman is a "serial bank robber," but a tipster tipped off police According to KIRO 7, Chang's bank robbery methods were fairly elaborate.. On February 10, 1997, the Seafirst Bank branch of Lakewood, Washington, was robbed of $4,461,681 in cash by Billy Kirkpatrick and Ray Bowman, also known as the Trenchcoat Robbers. An investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service caught the two, and they were both sent to 15 years in prison in 1999. It is one of the largest robberies in U.S. history.