A woman suspected of being an accomplice to a cross-dressing robber in a Halloween Day bank heist was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon in Marietta, and police were seeking her male companion.
Arrest warrants were issued this week for John McCrary and Megan Haney in connection with the Oct. 31 robbery of the BB&T Bank in the 1900 block of Sandy Plains Road, Marietta.
Police from the Cobb County city arrested the 24-year-old Haney about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and were searching for McCrary, 33, who had been spotted that morning walking along Barnes Mill Road near North Cobb Parkway, police spokesman Officer David Baldwin said.
“He is suspected to be armed and dangerous” and was believed to still be in the area, Baldwin told the AJC in a phone interview.
Police said a man dressed as a woman, wearing sunglasses, a shoulder-length black wig, a skirt and short boots, walked into the BB&T about 1 p.m. Oct. 31 and handed a teller a note, saying he had a gun. The robber was given an unspecified amount of money and was last seen running behind the bank.
The bandit’s body build, features and movements – particularly the way the suspect ran from the bank – gave him away as a man, police said. It later was determined that a woman was waiting for him in a getaway vehicle.
Officers spotted a man they believed to be McCrary walking in the mixed commercial and residential area northeast of central Marietta about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, and they radioed for assistance, Baldwin said.
"As they were waiting for other units to arrive, somehow they lost sight of him,” Baldwin said. Officers went into the wooded area and set up a perimeter but were unable to locate the couple at the time.
McCrary was described as a bald white male, 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 140 to 150 pounds, wearing a navy jacket with blue jeans.
The McDonough man also is wanted on a warrant for living in a vacant building in South Cobb County, Channel 2 Action News reports.
-- Dispatch Editor Angel K. Brooks contributed to this article.
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