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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