Bank Teller

HAMILTON, N.J. - Authorities say a robber shot a bank teller Tuesday before making off with cash shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday at the JP Morgan Chase bank in Hamilton Township. Bank robberies generally do not involve gunfire. The FBI says the robber approached the teller counter, waved and pointed a silver revolver at the teller, and fired. He escaped on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash. The robber was described as a black male who was wearing a black baseball cap, blue jeans, dark glasses, black gloves, tan work boots, and a dark-blue, long-sleeve shirt.

A quick-thinking bank teller made it easy for police to identify the robber who held up the Provident National Bank branch in Lansdowne on Tuesday by taking the welfare identification card that the robber was nervously tapping on the counter as he waited for the money, authorities said yesterday. Richard William Crossan, 26, of the 200 block of Kingston Road, Upper Darby, was arraigned Wednesday on charges of robbery, theft, receiving stolen property and making terroristic threats.

After fleeing an Upper Darby bank wearing a dreadlock wig and Rastafarian hat on Friday, a robber broke into a nearby home where he stayed for hours and helped himself to the owner's wardrobe, police said. The robbery occurred about 11 a.m., when a man in his 20s - about 6 feet tall - handed a demand note to a teller at the Alliance Bank, at 69th and Walnut streets, Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. With the man adorned in the dreadlock wig and a Rastafarian hat, the female teller smirked, thinking the note was a joke, police said.

The figure in Muslim-style female garb and dark glasses pointed a handgun at banker Brandon Smith and ordered, "Top drawer, bottom drawer. " Smith said he didn't know if the person veiled in black was a woman or a man. But those four words - the location of the teller's two cash drawers - told him that the robber knew a lot about the Bank of America branch in Port Richmond. With good reason. According to testimony Wednesday in the trial of two men charged in the killing of Philadelphia Police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski, the person in black - veteran robber Howard Cain, 33 - had spent five months casing the branch, inside a ShopRite grocery at Aramingo and Castor Avenues.

A bank teller from Willingboro has been indicted on federal charges of taking part in a fraud scheme that relied on stealing the identities of her former employer's customers. Patricia Lightsey, 27, and James Hull, 49, of Troy, N.Y., netted $170,820 from the plot, according to the indictment. A federal grand jury alleged that Lightsey, while a teller for TD Bank, sold to an unidentified person the identifying information, including dates of birth, driver's license numbers, social security numbers, and bank account numbers of bank customers between July and October 2011.

Here's a love story that does not end happily ever after. Instead of a castle, the beloved went to the "big house" for a heist they orchestrated during their romance. When the affair began, she was a former bank teller and he was a felon convicted of bank robbery. On Tuesday, Stephanie Jordan, 23, of Deptford was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Camden to three years and four months in prison for her part in the 2010 robbery of a gas station owner. Jordan had worked as a teller at TD Bank at 1450 Clements Bridge Rd. in Deptford until she was fired in September 2009, according to court records.

Sarah Lynn Fulton, 84, of West Chester, a retired bank teller who was active in her church, died Monday at the Brandywine Hall Care Center in West Chester. Mrs. Fulton was born in Lombard, Md., and grew up in Unionville. She graduated in 1929 from Unionville High School, where she was active in varsity track, field hockey and basketball, and was a star basketball player. She received the Kennett Square American Legion Award for All-Around Student of the Year. After high school, Mrs. Fulton attended a business school in Philadelphia, and then worked as a teller for the Peoples Bank of Unionville.

A 33-year-old teller was shot late yesterday morning during a robbery at the Mellon PSFS in Benjamin Fox Pavilion in the Jenkintown area of Abington Township. The teller, Julie Hong of Jenkintown, was shot in the lower abdomen. She was listed in good condition after undergoing surgery at Abington Memorial Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. Two men walked up to the teller's station at about 11:15 a.m. and announced that they were robbing the bank, police said. As one of the robbers - who held a small-caliber handgun - leaned over the teller's counter, a bullet was fired, hitting Hong.

In the future, Russians may ask one another: "Where were you when you heard Vladislav Listyev was killed?" The mafia-style slaying last week of Russia's best-known television journalist stopped the country in its tracks, much as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy did in America, and left many Russians feeling just as disillusioned. Yesterday, thousands of mourners gathered at Vagankovskoye cemetery in central Moscow to pay their last respects to Listyev. His career, which blossomed with the glasnost-era reforms, had come to a brutal end at a time when Russia's progress is threatened by rising lawlessness.

In his home right behind Collective Bank in Berlin Borough, Scott Thompson was reading the morning paper just before 9 yesterday when he heard gunshots. He went out to investigate and was ordered inside by police. Minutes before, Donn Fagans, manager of the Kmart auto-service center next door to the bank, had noticed police taking up positions throughout the parking lot of the shopping center on the White Horse Pike. One officer, pointing a shotgun at the bank, crouched behind a telephone pole in front of the bank.

Four adults and three children were held hostage in Bristol Township overnight Monday, according to police. But the men holding them, who were apparently seeking $80,000 from one of the victims, were caught after a bank teller alerted authorities. According to police, three men - Orlando McNeil, 38, of Levittown, and Daesean Smith, 21, and Dennis Redding, 18, both of Philadelphia - first were attempting to lure Dwayne Stancil to the Glen Hollow Apartments in Croydon to rob him, but he refused to leave his home in the Levittown Trace Apartments on Ford Road.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated at New Zealand's Parliament on Wednesday as the country became the 13th in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage. Lawmakers voted 77-44 in favor of the gay-marriage bill on its third and final reading. People watching from the public gallery and some lawmakers broke into song after the result was announced, singing the New Zealand love song "Pokarekare Ana" in the indigenous Maori language.

A bank teller from Willingboro has been indicted on federal charges of taking part in a fraud scheme that relied on stealing the identities of her former employer's customers. Patricia Lightsey, 27, and James Hull, 49, of Troy, N.Y., netted $170,820 from the plot, according to the indictment. A federal grand jury alleged that Lightsey, while a teller for TD Bank, sold to an unidentified person the identifying information, including dates of birth, driver's license numbers, social security numbers, and bank account numbers of bank customers between July and October 2011.

Joseph Bucci was like "a kid in a candy store," his lawyer says. One day, the Trevose, Bucks County, man had $35.46 in his bank account. The next day, he had nearly $70,000. Over the next month, Bucci, 22, spent all but $2,000 of the windfall, buying a used car, a computer, a camera, clothes, furniture, and a dog, lawyer Michael Parlow said Friday. "He spent a majority of the money helping family and friends," Parlow said. "He lent money to a lot of people. " Now it's time to repay the bank that made the bookkeeping mistake, and he's trying scrape up the money and stay out of jail.

Joseph Bucci was like "a kid in a candy store," his lawyer says. One day, the 22-year-old Trevose, Bucks County man had $35.46 in his bank account. The next day, he had nearly $70,000. Over the next month, Bucci spent all but $2,000 of the windfall, buying a used car, a computer, a camera, clothes, furniture and a dog, lawyer Michael Parlow said Friday. "He spent a majority of the money helping family and friends," Parlow said. "He lent money to a lot of people. " Now it's time to repay the bank that made the bookkeeping mistake, and he's trying scrape up the money and stay out of jail.

Alleged Center City bank robber arrested * Market Street near 16th, Center City A Hunting Park man was arrested Tuesday morning for allegedly robbing a Republic Bank branch in Center City. Christian Stephens, 30, allegedly robbed the bank on Market Street near 16th about 11:35 a.m. and dropped an undisclosed sum of money on the sidewalk. Police said that a bank teller slid Stephens a dye pack along with the money and it exploded when he stepped outside the bank. He fled the bank and was arrested on 18th Street near Callowhill, police said.

Cops, FBI seek gunman in 2 bank robberies * JP Morgan Chase bank, Klockner Road, Mercerville, N.J. Police and the FBI are searching for a man who they say robbed a bank near Trenton in November and then shot a teller when he robbed the same bank in August. Jeffrey Lynn Garrett Jr., 34, walked into the JP Morgan Chase bank on Klockner Road in Mercerville on Aug. 23 and shot a bank teller in her stomach before fleeing on foot with an undisclosed amount of money, police said.

HAMILTON, N.J. - Authorities say a robber shot a bank teller Tuesday before making off with cash shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday at the JP Morgan Chase bank in Hamilton Township. Bank robberies generally do not involve gunfire. The FBI says the robber approached the teller counter, waved and pointed a silver revolver at the teller, and fired. He escaped on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash. The robber was described as a black male who was wearing a black baseball cap, blue jeans, dark glasses, black gloves, tan work boots, and a dark-blue, long-sleeve shirt.

Here's a love story that does not end happily ever after. Instead of a castle, the beloved went to the "big house" for a heist they orchestrated during their romance. When the affair began, she was a former bank teller and he was a felon convicted of bank robbery. On Tuesday, Stephanie Jordan, 23, of Deptford, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Camden to three years and four months in prison for her part in the 2010 robbery of a gas station owner. Jordan had worked as a teller at TD Bank at 1450 Clements Bridge Rd. in Deptford until she was fired in September 2009, according to court records.

Here's a love story that does not end happily ever after. Instead of a castle, the beloved went to the "big house" for a heist they orchestrated during their romance. When the affair began, she was a former bank teller and he was a felon convicted of bank robbery. On Tuesday, Stephanie Jordan, 23, of Deptford was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Camden to three years and four months in prison for her part in the 2010 robbery of a gas station owner. Jordan had worked as a teller at TD Bank at 1450 Clements Bridge Rd. in Deptford until she was fired in September 2009, according to court records.