Statistics recently released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation show that $43 million was taken in 5,628 reported bank robberies, burglaries, and larcenies in the United States in 2010. Out of that amount, only $8 million was recovered. According to sources, 148 of those robberies, burglaries, and larcenies took place in Washington. The FBI did not, however, indicate how many among those 5,000-plus robbers were arrested.

One recently captured Seattle robber, the "F-Bomb bandit", was 16-years-old at the time of she was arrested along with two other Seattle teens, after being accused of holding up four banks in 2010. Sources say that a 40-year-old adult was allegedly the "mastermind" behind those robberies.

The F-bomb bandit earned her name from the FBI because his technique of entering banks unarmed and handing the teller an explicit note demanding money.

Out of those four robberies, the group stole $11,398: 7,600 from a branch of Bank of America in Renton in early January; $500 from a Bank of America branch in Kent in early February; $913 from a Wells Fargo branch in Renton not quite two weeks later; and another $2,385 from an Alaska USA Federal Credit Union branch in North Seattle near the end of February.

The F-bomb bandit was arrested when she was found wearing the same coat as shown in bank videos of the bandit. She is currently fighting charges against her, and is set for trial in two weeks.

The F-bomb bandit didn't have accomplish much when compared to high profile robbers like the Trench Coat robbers back in 1997, who took $4,461,48 in Tacoma, the nation's largest job ever. Hers is more on the level of robberies like that of Anthony Battiste, who averaged around $2,000 per bank back in the early 90's,

Source: Seattle Weekly, "'F-Bomb Bandit' Among Bank Robbers Who Made Big Headlines But Little Profit Last Year, Rick Anderson, 5 April 2011.