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The woman who has been somewhat unkindly nicknamed the "Plain Jane Bandit" by the press isn't letting her newfound moniker deter her from her chosen line of work: She was recently spotted robbing a Chase bank in Cerritos, her eighth SoCal robbery in about a month.
ABC 7 reports that she used the same method in the Cerritos robbery that she always uses, whereby she simply walks in, shows a teller a note asking for money, and leaves. She reportedly has never been armed or shown a teller a weapon, but she does sometimes say that she has an accomplice waiting for her outside.
She got her nickname because of the way witnesses have described her, which is as a "plain Jane" between the ages of 35 and 40, 5'3 to 5'5 and about 170 pounds.