"You go, girl!".

Gregory Holloway, a longtime resident of Covington, Kentucky, had steady employment until he became addicted to crack cocaine a few months ago. The father of two then turned to bank heists to support his drug habit. In early July, he stole an estimated $1,670 from a Covington branch of PNC Bank, and a few days later took $1,945 from a branch of Huntington Bank, also in Covington.

Shortly after 1 p.m. on the afternoon of July 26, he tried to rob a PNC Bank branch in Florence, but met his match when a feisty female teller refused to cooperate. The unidentified teller had been robbed before, and was determined not to let it happen again.

When Holloway entered the bank and demanded that the teller "put the money on the counter," he was not holding a gun or other weapon. The teller firmly told him, "No!" He then threatened, "Don't make me pull a gun," but she still made clear that she had no intention of handing over any money.

Flustered, Holloway turned and scurried from the bank. Rather than let him get away, the teller watched as he crossed the parking lot, then she jumped into a fellow employee's car, trailed him to a store in a nearby mall, and called authorities. Florence Police and Boone County Sheriff's deputies soon arrived and arrested the suspect without incident near the store's upper-level entrance.

Holloway confessed to the attempted holdup and the two earlier bank robberies. On August 11, a grand jury indicted him on two counts of bank robbery and one count of attempted bank robbery.

The July 27 Covington Kentucky Post quoted a spokesman for the Florence Police as saying that, while they advise robbery victims not to resist thugs who threaten to use a weapon, the teller's determination to track the suspect was "very helpful to us," and "we're glad she was able to tell us where this guy went."