Police: Woman abducted, forced to be bank robbery getaway driver
EVERETT, Wash. -- A female Everett Community College student was abducted at gunpoint and forced to be the getaway driver during a bank robbery last week, according to the Everett Police Department.
According to police, the victim was getting into her parked car near the college around 5 p.m. Jan. 23 when a man pointed a gun at her and forced his way into the car.
The man told her to drive him to numerous locations around north Everett and downtown, according to police.
During a stop in downtown Everett, the man had the victim park and told her to stay put.
"Before he left the vehicle, he said, 'I know who you are, I know your license plate, if you leave I will find you and I will kill you,' " said Aaron Snell with Everett police.
The victim later told officers she was afraid and stayed in the car until the man returned and had her continue to drive him around.
Around 6 p.m., the man told her to park outside the Wells Fargo Bank at 1801 Broad Ave.
According to police, the man went into the bank and used a note to threaten a teller into handing over money.
The man walked out with his cash, got back in the car and had the victim drop him off near where he first abducted her, according to police.
According to police, the man is black, 20 to 30 years old, about 5-feet-11-inches tall and 160 pounds. He had shoulder-length black dreadlocks that may or may not have been a wig and a French or African accent. He was wearing a dark blue beanie, a dark blue jean jacket, blue jeans and brown shoes.
I'm in agreement with @Sundowner . This isn't smelling right - at all.Â
 @washcomom Remember the women who've claimed they were attacked and sexually assaulted to hide from their partners what they were really up to?  Maybe my brain works differently, but wouldn't it be interesting if she was in on it, then got cold feet and rolled on him?  Stranger things have happened.  Definitely time to bring out the Smell Test Kit.
Patty Hearst syndrome?
 @HenryBowman Over the course of what, an hour?  I'm sticking with nucking futz. Â
I'm thinkin' that if the dreds *might be a wig*, then perhaps the ", , , French or African accent" is phony, too?
 @Jumpin' Jehosophat You just quit yer thinkin'....logic doesn't always go over well here.
During all these little stops around town, she couldn't call 911?
 @jpk I think you missed the part where she waited in the car while he went inside to rob a bank. And then drove him home....
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@lakeview No I didn't, but maybe she did.............if she wasn't in on it to begin with, but didn't get her cut. LOL
 @jpk Some folks do not have a cell phone. Or, like mine, sometimes the battery loses connection and the phone goes dead. Or, and this is most likely IMO, the bank robber may have been smart enough to have disabled her cell phone.
She wasn't forced. She could have invoked pacifist philosophies and flower power, or called the police state to come to her aid. OR, she could have just driven away when he was in the bank, except that she lives in victim-world where if you don't do what the bad man says he'll do bad things to you and your family.So, instead, she did what victims do, which is wait for another crime to happen against innocent people before she gets up the will to tell the authorities.
 @Playanekes I'm a cynical one -- I'd administer the smell test to this story, something just doesn't add up.  Drive a bad guy around and wait in the car while he robs a bank?  What is she, nucking futz?  (I hate that saying, btw, but it's pretty appropriate.)
@Sundowner @Playanekes Probably just clueless!
 @jpk Nope, I'm sticking with mine.  Maybe there's a fine line between 'clueless' and 'bat**** stupid' -- she crossed it when she didn't even drive her car into a garbage can along the street -- it's likely anything like that would have scared him enough he would have hopped out of her vehicle and taken off.  I've always heard if you're ever carjacked, cause an auto accident to draw attention.  If the bad guy shoots you, odds are he/she was planning on shooting you anyway if you kept driving around with him -- worth the risk, IMO.Â
 @Sundowner I like that saying, personally. It describes the feeling I get when I'm stuck working indoors on one of those gorgeous sunny warm summer days.