FBI arrests ‘high-heeled hijacker’ for string of Texas robberies and a kidnapping

Dubbed the “high-heeled hijacker” by the FBI, a Texas girl has been arrested for her alleged place in a string of robberies and a kidnapping, federal authorities acknowledged.

Lisa Marie Coleman, 58, earned her moniker from the flowery footwear she was carrying for on the very least one of many robberies.

“It’s not very common, and so we felt that the High-Heeled Hijacker would be the perfect nickname,” Christina Garza of Houston’s FBI office knowledgeable the Post.

One particular person she stole from described the woman as correctly dressed nevertheless smelling “heavily of body odor,” based mostly on Houston Police.

Coleman’s crime spree started Nov. 15 when investigators acknowledged she approached Katie Otten, an employee at Galleria Houston, throughout the mall parking zone and demanded money, reported KTRK. The thief had her hand in her pocket, making Otten suppose Coleman was armed.

“This is a robbery, I have a gun, and I want your cash,” Otten knowledgeable the Houston station. “She forced her way into my vehicle and was like, ‘OK, take me to an ATM.’”

The hijacker then compelled the terrified girl to drive to a quantity of ATMs sooner than making a final stop at a grocery retailer.

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“I told her I wasn’t going to leave Randalls [pharmacy and grocery] with her,” the sufferer recalled. “I told her, ‘You have the car keys, take the car, go and do whatever you want.’”

Coleman took Otten’s phone, keys, and $160 and left.

In the occasions sooner than Christmas, Coleman was moreover behind robberies at a sandwich retailer, a resort and a monetary establishment, based mostly on the cops. Each time she used an equivalent pattern — passing staffers a phrase ordering them to offer her money and threatening violence, police acknowledged.

Ultimately, Coleman was arrested on unrelated costs, nevertheless a tip linked her to the robberies, the feds confirmed.

She has since been charged with kidnapping and three counts of theft by threat.

Meanwhile, federal brokers in Houston are looking out for the “Pocket Pillager” — a distinct monetary establishment bandit who’s been nicknamed as a consequence of the approach works so successfully.

“We learned very quickly it’s a smart tactic to give them names because the public latches on to them,” acknowledged the FBI spokeswoman.

“Some individuals, when we confront them, have literally said, ‘Yes, I am whatever nickname’ we’ve given them,” Garza added.