Source: Women are Human
US — Gulfport, Mississippi. “You have 1 min to give the money do not be wrong are die,” read a hand-scrawled note passed to a teller at BancorpSouth shortly before 10 AM on March 22, 2019.
Multiple tellers handed over cash to the suspect.
Bank employees activated a hidden alarm that alerted local police to the heist.
Witnesses described the suspect as a “woman” with “swollen” lips indicative of recent plastic surgery. Witnesses also noted that the suspect had “really enhanced” cheeks from extensive cosmetic operations.
Gulfport Police traced a Cadillac car abandoned in the area to Iconic Facce, a male who had a criminal record of holding up banks to fund gender surgeries to modify his secondary sex characteristics to look more like a woman.
Facce, whose birth name is Jimmy Maurice Lewis II, has used other names over the years, including Destinee J. Lewis and Christy Nicole Lewis.
The geolocation data of Facce’s cell phone “established that the phone was located in Gulfport in the area of BancorpSouth on the morning of March 22, 2019, between the hours of 7 and 11 AM,” and “last located on March 23, 2019, at the Hunstville International Airport,” according to prosecutor Ian Baker.
Facce flew to Mexico for plastic surgery. Upon return to the US, Facce, whose nose was still bandaged from surgery, was arrested at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on March 30.
Facce unsuccessfully fought extradition to Mississippi.
On Monday, May 10, Facce, aged 39, pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Facce’s first known bank robbery was of an FSG Bank in Cleveland, Tennessee on June 28, 2007.
In November 9, 2007, Facce passed a teller at the Alabama Credit Union in Decatur, Alabama a note that read, “No games, no jokes and get your hands up. Don’t mash any alarms. Don’t move, or she gets it.” Facce nabbed $9,000 in cash. Facce refused to cooperate with the defense attorney. The attorney attempted to withdraw from the case, saying his client appeared to have “gender identity issues.” Facce served 51 months in federal prison for the crime.
Faace is a suspect in the December 3, 2007 robbery of a Regions Bank in Dalton, Georgia. The money was recovered when the suspect dropped it after the dye-pack exploded.
On December 18, 2007, Facce robbed First National Bank in Plano, Texas, and was arrested at a Los Angeles airport after deboarding a flight back from Mexico.
The serial bank robber made the legal name change to Iconic Faace following release from prison in 2009.
