U.S. Department of Justice Jeffrey A. Taylor U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia 555 4 th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For Information, Contact Public Affairs Channing Phillips (202) 514-6933 Wednesday, January 2, 2008 Northeast woman pleads guilty to bank robbery by extortion Woman claims child had been kidnaped and would be killed if she was not given money

Washington, D.C. - A 21-year-old District of Columbia woman, Krissandra Melissa Moore, has pleaded guilty to robbing a Southeast Washington, D.C. bank by extortion, claiming that her child would be killed if bank employees did not give her $60,000, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor and Joseph Persichini, Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, announced today.

Moore, of the 1700 block of Trinidad Street, NE, Washington, D.C., entered her guilty plea earlier today in U.S. District Court before the Honorable James Robertson. Moore’s sentencing has been scheduled for March 20, 2008. Under the statute, she faces a maximum of up to 20 years in prison.

According to the factual proffer, agreed to and signed by Moore and accepted by the Court, on September 20, 2007, Moore and another person approached the SunTrust Bank, located at 1571 Alabama Avenue, SE, Washington, D.C., with the intent to extort money from the federally insured institution. Moore entered the bank and demanded $60,000 from bank employees, claiming that others had kidnapped her 1-year old child and would kill the child if the bank did not give her $60,000. While Moore, who is a mother of two small children, was inside the bank, an accomplice telephoned the bank and threatened to kill the child if the bank did not give Moore the money demanded.

During today’s plea proceeding, Moore acknowledged that her child was never at risk and the threats to the contrary were merely part of a ruse to extort money from the bank. At the time of this offense, Moore was on probation in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for a simple assault charge. Moore’s probation in the Superior Court case has since been revoked.

In announcing the guilty plea, U.S. Attorney Taylor and Assistant Director in Charge Persichini praised the work of FBI Special Agent James Myrick and Metropolitan Police Detectives J.D. Wright and Richard Hamilton. In addition, they praised Assistant U.S. Attorney Bruce R. Hegyi, who is prosecuting the case.