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Alleged red-wigged Glen Rock bank robber has checkered past, records show

March 5, 2015, 9:23 PM    Last updated: Friday, March 6, 2015, 7:15 PM
By CHRIS HARRIS
staff writer |
The Record

GLEN ROCK — The wig-wearing woman who authorities say robbed the Glen Rock Savings Bank last month and took the proceeds to a casino has a checkered criminal past that includes jail stints in both Florida and New York, where she was convicted for robbery, burglary and theft.

Michelle Cantatore, 51, of White Plains, N.Y., was detained Thursday in Atlantic City by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation on a single bank robbery charge.

But before walking into the Glen Rock bank three weeks ago brandishing a paintball gun, arrest records indicate Cantatore spent more than three years behind bars in a Florida prison following a 1982 conviction on three counts of grand theft and one count of burglary.

Cantatore, who was born in New Mexico, also served more than a year in a New York prison when she was convicted in 1996 of third-degree robbery in Westchester, records show.

According to the FBI’s complaint against her, Cantatore fled Glen Rock with $112,900 in cash and was inside Atlantic City’s bustling Borgata casino just seven hours later.

Investigators used cell phone and vehicle registration records to track Cantatore to the Borgata, the FBI’s complaint states. Surveillance footage recovered by agents showed Cantatore allegedly “handing two large stacks of cash to the Borgata Casino cashier,” according to a news release.
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Police investigating possible link between Glen Rock bank robber and heist in Connecticut

FEBRUARY 20, 2015, 7:11 PM    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015, 7:17 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

GLEN ROCK — Borough detectives are looking into a possible connection between Wednesday’s stick-up at the Glen Rock Savings Bank by an androgynous robber and a similar hold-up reported last month in Connecticut.

Glen Rock Detective James Calaski acknowledged on Friday that investigators “are aware of the similarities between Wednesday’s robbery and a job in Connecticut,” and that they were “looking into those similarities.”

The wig-sporting suspect from the Glen Rock heist, who made off with $100,000 in cash, wore women’s sunglasses, a black coat, white boots, and black gloves while brandishing a paintball gun, authorities said.

The robber tossed the gun and rose-colored wig as he or she fled, police said.

On Jan. 30, police claim a woman with short dark hair in a black coat with white boots and wearing sunglasses robbed the Greenwich Bank and Trust Co. in Greenwich, Conn., wielding a large handgun.

An article in the Greenwich Times quotes a police spokesman in that city who said detectives there were also actively looking into Glen Rock’s caper and a possible link.

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