Alleged bank robber took cab to bank with friends

Driver 'furious' about use of taxi by alleged bank robber

By Nok-Noi Ricker
BDN Staff

BANGOR, Maine - There was nothing unusual about the three women Ace Taxi owner-operator Yehoshua "Josh" Mizrachi picked up Tuesday morning for a ride to a downtown bank. In fact, the cab driver said the trio were regular customers, and he already had transported them once that morning.

Mizrachi wasn’t even concerned when one of the women, later identified as Matisha Pitts, 25, of Bangor, asked him to park in front of Bangor Savings Bank on State Street while she ran inside at around 9:30 a.m.

"That's not unusual," he said Wednesday morning at a local coffee shop.

He said the first sign of a problem was when "one of her friends gets out of the car and goes and looks for her [Pitts] and when Pitts returns from the bank a minute later she said, 'Let's go.'"

"My little yellow flags went up because she was preparing to leave without her friend," Mizrachi said. "She said, 'Never mind, never mind [about the friend]. Let's go.'"
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