Spawn's dad Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Parents of an alleged teenage bank robbing duo said on national television this week they couldn't comprehend how their daughters could have, as police and surveillance tape suggest, giggled behind fashionable sunglasses as they robbed a Bank of America branch last week. There also was shock at Shooter Alley, a nude dance club outside Atlanta, where co-workers say Ashley Miller and Heather Johnston, both 19, worked the afternoon shift. "I would have never thought...ever," said a 26-year-old dancer, "Dream," who says she worked with Miller -- stage name "Adrienne" -- and Johnston -- "Charlie" -- for at least two months. "Charlie was always smiling, just a sweetheart. She just said she played tennis in high school. We talked about kids, relationships, never nothing about criminal stuff." "Charlie was just innocent looking. She could make you laugh just by watching her dance. She could just look at you, stick her tongue out; it was funny, being kiddie." "Dream" said she and Johnston talked often, but she never heard the young women talk about two men who authorities say helped pull the heist off. Benny Herman Allen III, 22, was the bank teller who accepted the teenagers' demand note, police said, opening his drawer and giving them what investigators said was a sum "significantly more" than $500. According to arrest warrants, Allen met the young women through a man named Michael Darrell Chastang, 27, who Georgia Department of Corrections records show is a convicted felon with many arrests. The plan, the warrant states, was to split the money four ways. By most accounts, the bank robbery went smoothly. The incident caused such little stir that a customer standing behind them later told a reporter that she had no idea the bank had been robbed. In the two days after the crime, the teenagers went on a shopping spree at a Gucci store in Atlanta and got their hair done, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. (Watch the suspects at the beauty salon Video) On March 2, Chastang, Miller and Johnston led police on a short car chase not far from Six Flags amusement park outside of Atlanta and were apprehended. According to arrest warrants, police found marijuana in the car and ecstasy pills on Miller. The warrants also said ecstasy was found on Chastang, but Miller told police, "Those pills are mine and he is just holding them for me." In a later interview, police say Miller told them she was a "drug dealer." Allen was arrested at a different location. All four are charged with felony theft, said Cobb County Police spokeswoman Cassie Reece. Johnston, Chastang and Miller also face drug-related charges. Johnston, Chastang, and Allen's attorneys could not be reached late Wednesday. Johnston is charged with theft and marijuana possession. According to the arrest warrant, she confessed to police her role in the robbery and identified her accomplices.A mother's anguish Repeated phone calls by CNN.com to Johnston's family were not returned. Allen has bonded out of the Cobb County Jail. Chastang, Johnston, and Miller remain there. Miller was not given a bond; she violated probation on an August 2006 DUI conviction, said her attorney, Bruce Harvey. His client intends to plead not guilty, he said. Her next court appearance is March 23. "She's a frightened young kid who finds herself in the eyes of a media whirlwind that she never anticipated," Harvey said. Asked how he will build a defense against his client's admission to police that she is a drug dealer, he replied, "Obviously, not a very sophisticated statement." The girl's mother, Joy Miller, rejected the allegation that her daughter is involved with drugs. "She is taking the blame for the boy who has the drugs, 'cause she's a sweet girl with a big heart." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Is this movie in production yet? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tongue-tied lightning Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 an afternoon special I thinks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JUDE Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Lifetime, this will be one of those 6 hour, waste a Sunday afternoon cause you got sucked in deals. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 If it's called anything but We Were Teenaged Bank-Robbing Strippers On Ecstasy!!, count me out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JUDE Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 I'm pretty sure Melissa Gilbert will show up in this somewhere. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DawgSong Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 [quote name='JUDE Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- ...said her attorney, Bruce Harvey. That's all that needs to be said. Slap 'em on the wrist. Case closed. I see that guy driving around. His license plats says "ACQUIT", and it's no joke. He's the go-to guy around here. http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/932/211...uceharvey.0.jpg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
parisisstale Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 The shades really do help. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anodyne Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 they LOOK like afternoon shift strippers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 they LOOK like afternoon shift strippers. is there a free lunch buffet? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
deepseacatfish Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 I'm sure their stripper skills and fashionable-sunglass wearing bank robbing skills will earn them lots of friends in prison. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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