"Catwoman" wanted for NYC robberies

[Tom]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/29/new.york.cat.mask.robber/

Who is that cat-masked woman?

It's the question that the New York City Police Department is asking as it tries to nab a thief who has been making the rounds in the city's shoe and bath stores.

The petite, dark-haired, dark-eyed suspect has established a pattern. She enters the store, browses discreetly, and then covers her face -- with a cat mask on one occasion, and with a scarf on two others -- and pounces on the store's cashier, handing over a note demanding cash. "I have a gun," the note says, providing her cover as she high-tails it with the money.

New York City police told CNN that the suspect is possibly a Middle Eastern female, who measures about 5'6" and weighs around 110 pounds. She has made off with an undisclosed amount of cash after three robberies so far -- at an Arche shoe store in the New York City borough of Manhattan on Friday, at The Body Shop in the borough of Queens on Thursday and at a Nine West store last year, also in Queens, authorities said.

It was at the Manhattan shoe store that the thief donned the cat mask, after prowling the store for nearly 45 minutes, police said.

No one was available to comment at Arche or The Body Shop. A manager at Nine West told CNN that the robbery occurred before she began working at the store.

Police have been on the suspect's tail since the Nine West store robbery in April of 2009.

Awesome.

 

[Fuelbi]

Where is Batman when we need him?

 

[UberMario]

Well that's . . . . . interesting. It'd be hilarious if a cop named "Bruce" apprehended her.

 

[Mota]

Haha pouncing on store cashiers, I'd like to see that.

 

[Catwoman]

Yet another impostor! I'm flattered, really.

 

[Virgilijus]

No cat stories, Tom!

 

[BBQTV]

Ah good sheeeeeeee

 

[Tom]

No cat stories, Tom!

I give the people what they want!

 

[McCloud]

Wahaha, this is hilarious.

 

[MikeKirby]

Pouncing on the cash register... sexy.