By Jim Clark

Police patrol units were issued a “be on the lookout” advisory after a woman reportedly robbed the East Cambridge Savings Bank at 285 Highland Avenue last Friday morning.

The woman had reportedly passed a demand note to a teller stating that she had a bomb in her possession. The woman was given some cash and she immediately left the bank, according to reports.

A witness tip led police to the bike path at Lexington Park where they soon spotted the suspect. As police approached the woman she reportedly kept looking back over her shoulder at them and tried walking away from them at a faster pace. She reportedly said to the, “I didn’t do it.” as she walked away.

Once stopped by the officers for questioning, the woman, Crystal Geary, 22, reportedly began crying and said, “I didn’t go in the bank it was another girl.”
The officers noted that a wad of money could be seen sticking out of the pocket of Geary’s jacket, police said.

As she was told that bank employees would be brought to the scene to make an identification she again insisted, “It wasn’t me, the other girl did it,” according to reports.

The victim bank teller was brought to the scene and made a positive identification of Geary as the perpetrator of the robbery.

Geary was placed under arrest and charged with unarmed robbery and false bomb threat.