Odds or Ends

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. -- A bank robbery suspect was arrested while waiting at a bus stop to make her getaway, police said.

Channel Monae Gaskin, 22, was arrested Wednesday after a police officer saw the suspect waiting for a bus. She has been charged with robbery.

"That just wasn't too bright," Sandy Springs police Lt. Steve Rose said of the escape plan.

A woman went into a bank shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday and demanded money but didn’t show any weapon, according to police.

After being given a bag of cash, she ran across a parking lot to a restaurant, where a dye bomb exploded and sprayed orange-colored ink on her and the money. She then left the restaurant and then tried to stash the dye-stained clothes and money in a bathroom at a nearby grocery store, police said.

The woman apparently changed clothes and went to a bus stop behind the grocery store, Rose said.

But what made Gaskin think she could escape on public transportation? Police say she told them she had done it before. Gaskin admitted that on Jan. 15, she robbed a bank in DeKalb County and then got on a bus.

The woman was taken Wednesday to the Fulton County Jail and likely will be turned over to DeKalb County authorities and charged with the Jan. 15 robbery, police said.