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Loading ...Transwoman robbed bank to fund sex change
08.06.2008 4:01pm EDT
(Huntsville, Ala.) A transwoman is facing up to 20 years behind bars after being convicted by a federal jury of bank robbery.
The woman was charged and tried under her birth name – Jimmy Maurice Lewis II – of robbing the Alabama Credit Union in Huntsville. Police said that Lewis intended to use the money from the robberies to finance her sex reassignment surgery.Witnesses said a woman handed a teller at the Alabama Credit Union branch a note demanding $20,000 in $100 bills. In it, she warned the teller not to make any sudden moves, leading people in the bank to believe she was armed.
Surveillance cameras showed the robber to be a woman, but police matched the images to an Alabama driver’s license in the name of Jimmy Lewis. The photo on the license showed Lewis as a male.
Lewis was arrested in January at Los Angeles International Airport when she stepped off a flight from Mexico.
Lewis pleaded not guilty but declined to testify in her own defense. The jury deliberated just over a half hour before returning a guilty verdict and Lewis will be sentenced Dec. 11.
But that may not be the end of her troubles. She awaits trial for other bank robberies in Texas and Tennessee.
Following her arrest for the Huntsville heist police in Texas and Tennessee filed charges for similar robberies.
The dude’s an idiot. Woman, my ass.
this, is really dumb, and makes the rest of the real Transwomen look like were bad also. not true, I work for everything I do. Mr Lewis was nothing more than a man in dress, trying to circumvent the law to get what he wanted done, which was wrong on his part.. get a job dummy!
“Dog Day Afternoon” with Al Pacino. Haven’t seen it? Rent it on DVD. And no, this is not a commercial.
Isn’t this what the movie “Dog Day Afternoon” was about? Only in that, Pacino was robbing the bank for his boyfriend’s sex-change.
I hear that now the jail system will have to pay for her sex-change if it’s deemed medically necessary.