Bank Robbery Suspects Remain Behind Bars

April 14, 2012

Father and daughter bank robbery suspects — nabbed by federal agents in Bluff Springs and Brewton — remain behind bars this morning charged with a February 17 bank robbery in Brewton, Ala.

Robin Ann Godwin, age 42 of Century, was arrested by FBI agents Thursday night at a travel trailer on Bluff Springs Road just south of Century. She remains in the Escambia County, Fla., jail without bond as a fugitive from justice as she awaits extradition back to Alabama to face a first degree robbery charge.

As FBI agents arrested her in Florida, additional agents converged on a home on Pine Road in Escambia County, Ala. and arrested Norman Alvin Godwin, age 75, on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery and first degree robbery. He remains in the Escambia County (Ala.) Detention Center in Brewton with bond set at $90,000.

As they executed search warrants, FBI agents recovered evidence at a both locations, including cash allegedly taken during the Brewton robbery.

NorthEscambia.com was there Thursday night  in Bluff Springs as FBI agents searched the travel trailer of Robin Ann Godwin. For more on that search, click here for an earlier story.

A single suspect (pictured left) walked into the bank through a public boardwalk entrance at the rear of the building and demanded cash and fled out the same door. Authorities said at the time that they were not sure exactly how the bandit left the area following the robbery, but a few days later they said the bandit may have headed to Florida.

Pictured top and bottom: FBI agents executed a search warrant related to a Brewton bank robbery at this travel trailer on Bluff Springs Road south of Century Thursday night. FBI agents, who were just off camera, would not allow their photographs to be taken. NorthEscambia.com exclusive photos, click to enlarge.

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8 Responses to “Bank Robbery Suspects Remain Behind Bars”

  1. DW on April 16th, 2012 4:29 pm

    BUSTED!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. 429SCJ on April 16th, 2012 10:47 am

    Hello HUMMMMM I doubt she put the money in the bank. I bet in a year that area
    around Bluff Springs will be dotted with holes, after every idot who can lift a shovel
    goes diggin for it.

    In seven years, she will be out early on good behavior, and will go right to the spot,
    with no worry of prosection as the statute of limitations will have expired.

  3. CD on April 14th, 2012 11:00 pm

    Guess they’ll blame it on hard economic times. Way to go Pops. Your daughter sure looks up to you. Well no more living it the cramped up camper and she’ll get 3 squares, a bed, tv, rec room and free clothes and a library.

  4. hmmm on April 14th, 2012 8:03 pm

    Looks like they could have made a further getaway than Bluff Springs..with the looks of her living quarters she must have put all the money in the bank.

  5. Darius on April 14th, 2012 9:22 am

    What a waste of beauty and talent. It may sound a little twisted, but considering that there was’nt anyone hurt, she showed courage and initiative. Dad, on the other hand, show have given her a better set of values.

  6. Jimbo on April 14th, 2012 9:08 am

    Nice. A family run business that somehow just could’nt get off the ground.

  7. Ben Thar on April 14th, 2012 9:02 am

    Looks like they were living the high life with all that bank cash.

  8. JimD on April 14th, 2012 7:49 am

    I am sure if a walking tent came into the bank, wearing a hat an glasses, I would have not been suspicious either.

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