Camp Hill, Pennsylvania — Officers from the Camp Hill Police Department responded to an active robbery at the Fulton Bank located at 3344 Trindle Road around 10:30 a.m.
Two suspects were taken into custody after crashing a getaway vehicle on Hummel Avenue in Lemoyne.
Update By Christine Vendell | PennLive
Camp Hill police charged a man and woman after a bank robbery Tuesday that ended in a brief but furious car chase that damaged three police cruisers, including one that was nearly flipped over, according to court records.
Police charged Darius R. Hall, 34, of Lakewood, Washington, with bank robbery, two counts of aggravated assault and 14 other charges. He remained in jail Thursday without bond after a judge ruled he was a flight risk.
Police also charged Shamecka Kendralee York, 47, of Tacoma, Washington, with robbery, theft and conspiracy. She remained in jail with a bond set at $400,000.
Employees said a man came into the bank with a hammer and slammed it against the plexiglass partition between customers and tellers while demanding money.
According to an affidavit of probable cause written by police:
A teller pulled cash from his drawer, and the robber took it, then moved to another teller’s station and used the hammer to destroy her computer. She gave the robber cash, and he fled in a white Nissan Rogue with Massachusetts license plates.
Police tracked the suspect using a device hidden in the stolen money, a practice many banks use to deter robberies. The tracker showed a location near South 10th and Lowther streets in Lemoyne, a location near Interstate 83 about three miles away from the bank. Officers converged there and saw a woman pumping gas into a white Nissan Rogue and a man exiting the store.
Lower Allen officers told the man to put his hands up, but he ignored them and continued walking toward them, according to the affidavit.
The officers tried to grab the man, but he ran around the Nissan and jumped into the driver’s seat. The woman pumping gas hopped into the back seat. Police say the suspect drove forward, hitting a Lower Allen police cruiser.
While officers “were still fighting with” the suspect, they say he stomped on the accelerator in reverse hitting a West Shore police car that had just arrived to help. The impact flung the officers off the suspect’s Nissan. A Lower Allen officer was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital.
The suspect then drove forward and sped away, hitting a concrete safety pole at the gas pump and a Lower Allen police car, nearly flipping it over.
The suspect drove to South 10th Street near Hummel Avenue, about a half mile away, where he lost control during a left turn and hit a curb, disabling the vehicle.
Officers moved in and arrested both suspects.
The woman agreed to be interviewed and told police she drove from Washington to Arizona where she picked up Hall to take him to Florida to see his family. She told police she fell asleep in the Nissan and didn’t wake up until police arrested her.
Hall did not talk to police, according to the affidavit filed against him. Among the other charges filed against him include criminal damage to property, fleeing police and conspiracy.
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