Police searching for woman in Pasco armed robbery

PASCO, Wash.-- Pasco Police investigators are asking for the community's help identifying a woman suspected in an armed robbery.

Officers were called out to the Order Express check cashing business at 4th and Clark St. Saturday morning.

A clerk at the store reported that a woman had walked into the business at about 11:10 a.m., wearing a black face mask, blue jeans with decorations on the back pockets, and a black hoodie. The suspect is described as a white female about 5'00" to 5'04" tall, 115 pounds, and was wearing green eye contacts and short black boots.

Police say the woman was armed with what appears on video to be a medium-caliber semi-auto pistol, and she was carrying a cardboard box and a laptop on the way in. She left, taking an undisclosed amount of cash and the cardboard box, along with two cell phones from the clerk.

The suspect drove away in a red Honda Civic with one black door, which had been stolen minutes before from the Easterday Farms lot near Court St. and 1st. The car was found abandoned and unoccupied near the intersection of Tacoma and Clark within just a minutes of the robbery.

Police believe a blue SUV may be involved in the theft of the getaway car.

No one was hurt in the robbery.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to call non-emergency dispatch at 509-628-0333 or email Officer Tom Ninemire at ninemiret@pasco-wa.gov about case 20-35760 Robbery.