WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. By John F. Bailey. February 17, 2006.: White Plains Police arrested a White Plains woman and charged her with  bank robbery Thursday evening, within twenty minutes after she allegedly passed a note to a teller at Commerce Bank on Mamaroneck Avenue, approximately 7:20 P.M..

The woman, according to police, had passed a note to a teller at the bank, which said she had a gun and demanded money. The teller complied, Police spokesperson, Martin Gleeson told WPCNR today, then said the police were aided in making an arrest when an employee from the bank followed the suspect out of the bank and down the street, observing the direction she took leaving the bank.

Gleeson said the police do not recommend following perpetrators, because the employee had no way of knowing whether the suspect actually had a weapon.  Gleeson said the bank called 911.

White Plains police were there in minutes, he said  and Sergeant Brian Fuller of the White Plains Police with other units assisting, apprehended and arrested Anisa Gasparro of 235 South Lexington Avenue, 26. She was arrested on a charge of Robbery in the First Degree. Gleeson said no weapon was found when Sergent Fuller made the arrest, and that approximately $1,100 was recovered.

Gleeson said he did not recall when the last bank robbery occurred in the city, but it is the first in sometime.