Compass Bank Robbed

Alabama Mobile  MPD says a 55-year-old woman robbed the Compass Bank on Bel Air Boulevard Wednesday morning and used a taxi as a getaway car.
by Jamie Burch
Published: Wed, August 06, 2008 - 10:38 am CST Last Updated: Wed, August 06, 2008 - 11:40 pm CST
3:00 p.m.
- The accused banker robber is 55 year old Faith Sullivan.
- Police say she took a taxi to the bank, demanded money from the teller, then took the taxi back to her motel.
- Sullivan was arrested at a motel on the I-65 Beltline service road along with a man who was visiting her in the motel room. Police determined he did not have anything to do with the robbery.
- Police say the taxi driver had no idea Sullivan had just robbed the bank when he took her back to her motel.

11:38 a.m.
Mobile police have arrested two people accused of robbing the Compass Bank on Bel Air Boulevard.

The heist happened just after 9:00 a.m. Wednesday morning. Police tell News 5 they have two suspects in custody, a man and a woman.

It's the 27th bank robbery in Mobile this year. Last Thursday, someone robbed the Regions Bank around the corner at Airport & Sage.

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Treese and Ashley:
Please forgive my rant but obviously this woman has a history of scamming people and robbing them in one form or another.  I may be cold but I do not give money to anyone that comes up and panhandles or poor mouths to me.  All too often these people have more resources than you and I and know how to milk the system and the general public.  Now look this woman will not have to worry where she is going to stay, how she will eat (but obviously that has not been a problem for her) or how she is going to get healthcare when she gets sick.  She now has a roof over her head, a bed to sleep in, clothes to wear, food to eat and yes medical care when she needs and wants it all at the EXPENSE OF THE GOOD PEOPLE OF MOBILE.  Again, this woman has scammed someone.

This woman is a total idiot.  She very well may have been from New Orleans and many there lost everything BUT many from the MS Gulf Coast lost everything too.  Many from Southern and Central Mississippi lost everything, though it is not nearly as sensationalized as the losses in New Orleans.  I am so tired of hearing the poor me story related to Katrina.  If you lived through it, then shut up and stop asking for a hand out. There has been PLENTY OF TIME to get back on your feet since Katrina.  Not to get on my soapbox but it just really pisses me off the way people use Katrina as an excuse and God forgive me but if this woman uses Katrina as an excuse for robbing a bank she needs to be tied to a bouy during the next hurricane as her punishment for this robbery.  She is a real piece of work.  But what I cannot wait to hear is if she did use any of the money from the bank robbery to pay for her cab ride, that would be the ultimate.  Get a life Ms. Sullivan and stay out of Taxi’s.

This women came up to me and some of my friends one afternoon in a parking lot a couple of years ago and told us that her mother went missing during Hurricane Katrina and they had now found her body and she needed money to travel to New Orleans to identify her body. This women needs to be in jail!!!!

This woman scammed me and my friends a couple of years ago at Tijuana Flats on Goverment Blvd. She told us that she was from New Orleans and was a victim of hurricane Katrina. She went on to say that she needed money because she was getting kicked out of the hotel in which she was staying. Of course, we gave her money, around $80 or so that we had raised for our daughters to travel for volleyball. We really felt bad for this lady and believed in what she was saying. I am glad she has been caught because she has been scamming for years.

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