Could Crossville Bank Robber be the so called "Freedom Fighter Bandit?"

UPDATE: Nilhsa Marie Urena is listed as being held in the Davidson Co. Jail under a federal warrant and awaiting trial.  No bond is listed.  It appears that the Freedom Fighter Bandit has been captured.

The suspect in the February 3, 2018, robbery of the Crossville main Branch of the Upper Cumberland Federal Credit Union on Saturday has been captured near Nashville and the Crossville Police press release said she may have been involved in other bank robberies.

Suspect in a string of bank robberies

in Georgia Nilhsa Urena

Photo from a Georgia bank robbery.

The FBI has been looking for a young black female suspect in a string of bank and credit union robberies in Georgia for the last several months.  She may have been involved in as many as 9 other bank robberies starting in October of 2017.  That suspect was identified as Nilhsa Urena, 25, who apparently recruited young and teen black males to assist in the robberies.  Several of the alleged accomplices have been arrested in Georgia.  She is called herself the Freedom FIghter Bandit as she claims the money she robs goes "for a cause."

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Could the Crossville robbery on Saturday, February 3 have been committed by the Freedom Fighter Bandit?  While the identity of the suspect in Crossville's robbery has not yet been released, the possibility seems strong that it might have lead to the capture of the "Freedom FIghter Bandit."

More information as it becomes available.

Grio Article on "Freedom FIghter Bandit"

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Article