CRIME WATCH: Recognize this serial bank robber? She’s wanted for holdups including one in West Seattle

A woman suspected of robbing at least five Seattle banks – including one in West Seattle – is being sought by the FBI.

The robberies in which she is wanted started last June and ended January 13, the day we reported on a holdup at the US Bank in the West Seattle Junction. The FBI is circulating images today and describing her as an Asian woman, late teens or early 20s, 5’3″ to 5’5″, black hair, wearing a hat and mask during the robberies, in which she typically gave a teller a note demanding money. If you have any information on her identity, the FBI’s hotline is 800-CALL-FBI (or you can simply call 911).

P.S. If you’re wondering about the other robberies (all outside West Seattle – the January 13 holdup was the first bank robbery here in more than a year), the local FBI office tells us, “The others were: 6/28 Wells Fargo on Queen Anne, 9/7 a US Bank on NE 45th, 10/31 a US Bank on NE 63rd, 11/21 a Key Bank on Holman Road.”

14 Replies to "CRIME WATCH: Recognize this serial bank robber? She's wanted for holdups including one in West Seattle"

  • Mike January 22, 2025 (5:32 pm)

    I don’t think all those photos are the same person.

    • Alki resident January 22, 2025 (10:40 pm)

      Police likely have evidence that it is the same person. Hats, hoodies and masks need to stop being allowed in banks. Robberies are avoidable if the bank cared to protect their employees by putting up glass. 

      • 1994 January 22, 2025 (11:04 pm)

        Chase and BoA have glass!  Chase at Westwood even has a security guard! Have you been inside a bank lately? People should be able to wear a hat, hoodie, head covering, sunglasses in a bank. Robbers need to stop their behaviors or the police need to help them stop by apprehending them and putting them in jail. 

        • Alki resident January 23, 2025 (9:07 am)

          I’m in banks twice a week and neither of those you speak of are ones I go to. There are signs on the door of my bank asking that hats, sunglasses and hoodies by removed. This is after many robberies. Hence my above comment. 

      • Jsbm January 22, 2025 (11:19 pm)

        Hats, hoodies, and masks need to stop being allowed in banks?

    • Al King January 23, 2025 (6:08 am)

      Mike. Have you contacted the FBI with your observations?

  • WSzombie January 22, 2025 (9:54 pm)

    It’s 2025 and my $60 Ring camera has better imaging than a bank. I will never understand how this is a thing. I know that data storage can get expensive, but why even have it if it’s this bad of quality?

    • Jacob January 23, 2025 (10:17 am)

      They’re the same. And your Ring camera (likely 1080 or 2K tops)  is not saving a stream of footage. H264 encoded 1080p res needs 800k TB of storage. Yours is offloading any motion stream of a couple hundred megs of compressed video to a cloud server. Not even close to comparable. Go tell the bank they need a storage rack of nearly $20 grand in costs plus additional maintenance and rebasing costs for their 30-40 cameras. Banks can’t put their streams into a cloud server or even use Wifi like your little doorbell cam.

  • Josh January 23, 2025 (11:22 am)

    The woman in those pictures looks 40 not 20. 

    • walkerws January 23, 2025 (12:33 pm)

      Drugs are a hell of a drug

  • J January 23, 2025 (12:14 pm)

    A five foot Asian woman? No one could tackle her down? I am sure she is pretty harmless. SMH

    • WSB January 23, 2025 (12:43 pm)

      We don’t know what the note(s) said. If it threatened violence, mentioned a weapon, etc., no one is going to “tackle her down.”

    • Jacob January 23, 2025 (12:45 pm)

      Not sure what race has to do with anything here but ok

  • User January 23, 2025 (2:17 pm)

    I’m 23 and I can tell you this lady is NOT around my age

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