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Brash Facebook posts lead to bank heist arrests

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(CNN) -- Two people charged in a staged Texas bank heist apparently didn't think twice when they typed messages in the What's on your mind? portion of their Facebook pages, court documents say.



Get $$$(;., wrote bank employee Estefany Danelia Martinez two days before $62,201 was taken from the International Bank of Commerce in Houston, according to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Kevin J. Katz.



According to the affidavit, filed with a criminal complaint in federal court this week, her boyfriend, Ricky Gonzalez, wrote on his page on March 24, the day after the heist, Wipe my teeth with hundereds.



Those postings, plus an anonymous Crime Stoppers tip on March 30, landed the pair and two others in custody, according to the federal complaint. The tip advised there was information about the heist on Facebook.



According to the Katz's affidavit, Martinez told authorities the amateurish scheme was hatched by another teller, Anna Margarita Rivera.



Rivera was a teller during a previous unsolved bank robbery and believed staging the robbery would be easy, according to the affidavit.



Martinez advised the plan was for herself and Rivera to pick a date where they would both be working the late shift and they would plan for the staged robbery to take place close to closing time, thus minimizing the chances of any customers being in the bank, according to the affidavit.



Gonzalez and Arturo Solano, Rivera's brother, were recruited, authorities said.



Bank surveillance video showed two masked and armed men entering the bank around 5:45 p.m. on March 23. They jumped over the counter and demanded money. One of the pistols later was determined to be fake.



One robber took money and the other ordered the tellers to place money from the vault in a bag, the FBI agent said. The tellers, the only people in the bank at the time of the robbery, remained in the vault and later called 911.



On March 24, Gonzalez wrote on his Facebook page, U have to past the line sometimes!! To get dis money, the complaint says. Martinez allegedly wrote, I'm rich on Gonzalez's page on March 25.



CNN left messages Friday with attorneys for Martinez, Rivera and Gonzalez seeking comment. An attorney for Solano was not listed in court documents.



http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/04/22/texas.heist.facebook/index.html?hpt=T2
 
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