Woman with drawn-on beard robs petrol station

Police in California are looking for a woman who robbed a gas station disguised as a man, complete with a beard she had drawn on her face. Surveillance video of the robbery at first glance appeared to show a bearded man dressed in baggy clothes and a beanie hat demanding money from a clerk across the counter.

But on closer inspection, it becomes evident that the suspect is in fact a woman. "This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen, ever heard and witnessed on my camera system," says Sanjay Sharma, owner of the Chevron station on 5th and H in Modesto.

 

"She tried to lower her voice and sound a like a male and she used some kind of ink or shoe polish to draw a beard on herself," says Sgt. Rick Applegate of the Modesto Police Department. When you look at the tiny, feminine hands poking outside the clothing, there's no denying it's a lady behind this holdup. The suspect, standing all of 5'5" still managed to intimidate the clerk with a gun tucked into the waistband of her pants.

Because the clerk at this store doesn't have access to the safe, our armed robber only made off with about 30 dollars. Surveillance video shows her fleeing on a bicycle. Sergeant Rick Applegate says finding the suspect in this case could be pretty easy, "If anyone sees a woman that matches this description that has some dark black marks on her face, where it looks like she painted her face, there's a pretty good chance she could be our suspect here."