http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3855196

I just read that Heather Tallchief has surrendered after 12 years on the run. In the mid-90s (probably the 1994-95 season), UM aired a segment about her and her boyfriend, Roberto Solis. They were wanted for a 1993 bank armor heist in Nevada. Solis is still on the run. However, with Tallchief now in custody, I suspect that it won't be long before he is found.

While it's always great to hear about the capture of a fugitive, I find such an event especially gratifying when the fugitive had been on the run for a long time. Why? It's because it shows that the cops never gave up looking for that person. In addition, it proves that the old saying is true: persistence pays. ;)

The case has also been featured on America's Most Wanted. Therefore, it would be advisable to watch the show for an update on Tallchief's surrender. (The show airs on FOX on Saturday nights at 9:00 PM Eastern Time.)

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3855196

While it's always great to hear about the capture of a fugitive, I find such an event especially gratifying when the fugitive had been on the run for a long time. Why? It's because it shows that the cops never gave up looking for that person. In addition, it proves that the old saying is true: persistence pays. ;)


uh, well, except that she surrendered and the cops had nothing to do with it. :-) this isn't to say that the cops had stopped looking but i just mean that she basically walked into a police station so...

uh, well, except that she surrendered and the cops had nothing to do with it. :-) this isn't to say that the cops had stopped looking but i just mean that she basically walked into a police station so...
so glad she turned herself in...it must have been hard for her to come to that conclusion knowing she has a son...but she committed that crime and needs to show her son the right thing to do...I wonder if the lack of $$$$ led to her decision. After twelve years, I wonder how much is left of that $$$$ they stole.
To be funny for a moment, this story reminds me of what Chris Rock said once: Our service men found F**** Saddam Hussein in a F***** hole in the ground, but we can't find criminals in our own country??? LOL

uh, well, except that she surrendered and the cops had nothing to do with it. :-) this isn't to say that the cops had stopped looking but i just mean that she basically walked into a police station so...

I'm aware of that. I even stated that she had surrendered. I was just noting that (be it a capture, surrender, or what have you), it is gratifying to know that another fugitive is no longer on the run.

While UM may have aired a previous segment on them, they did air an original segment on the couple on October 2, 2001.

I just love when old cases are updated, whether it's by capture or surrender. Hopefully Solis' capture isn't too far ahead.

That story is big news here in Las Vegas, where the theft happened.

It was one of several unsolved big heists here. One woman who worked as a sportsbook cashier at the old Marina Casino in the '80s asked for a bathroom break and never returned. Turned out she had a plane flight reserved within 45 minutes of asking for the bathroom break. McCarron International Airport is just minutes from the Marina, which is where the MGM Grand now stands. They never caught her. Another guy robbed the Stardust sportsbook of about $300,000 in the early '90s. He closed the sportsbook every night and was a very recognizable face doing his rounds. One night about 2 AM he simply walked out the back corridor with the night's take and across the street to his weekly hotel room, retrieving his cat and skipping town. They never found him either.

So I'm hardly impressed with the persistence of law enforcement. I guess if someone drops a fortune on your front porch you decide to open the door. I'll credit law enforcement with that. They probably didn't tell her not to call back until she could provide multiple forms of ID.

Also, I think Tallchief made a considerable mistake during her press interview with a local reporter. She said she hopes to be back with her son in a year. That struck me as brazen and likely to backfire. You can just imagine some harsh judge reviewing that tape and being irked.

This story is on MSNBC right now.

This story old news, i posted about this 2 years ago... solis is still on the run

Yeah, I know it was old. I saw the MSNBC program in its first few minutes and wanted to bump a thread in case anyone was interested. The other threads were primarily from the period she was still a fugitive.

Not a bad program. A full hour. She said she lost rack of Polis about 10 years before she turned herself in, and has no idea what happened to him. He moved with her to Las Vegas when she was 21 and he was 48, because he had a grandiose notion of winning big on the craps table. That would make one person in the history of the planet.

Tallchief said Solis wanted her to get a job and one of the forms was an application for the armored car company. She filled it out without much expectation and was shocked when she was contacted for an interview, and then got the job. She had only recently got her drivers license for the first time. Two months later they pulled the heist.

Many interesting details. Solis told the owner of the storage facility that he repaired armored vehicles. That could explain why he brought one there and stored it. The armored car was found in the storage facility two weeks after the theft.

Solis and Tallchief flew to Denver after the theft. She was apparently disguised as a disabled old woman. The people who flew the private plane reported that the woman made an amazing recuperation during the flight, able to get up and walk away once the plane landed in Denver.

The interview was just before she turned herself in. A blurb at the end said she agreed to a plea deal and was sentenced to 5 years and ordered to pay $2.9 million restitution.

It didn't appear law enforcement had anything to do with her apprehension. There were interviews on the program and the consensus had been that she was dead, probably disposed of by Solis after he stopped having use for her.

That's very predictable, if you can't find someone just conveniently label them dead, even if it makes no sense based on age. EAR-ONS is dead, if you listen to authorities who worked on that case. Same with Zodiac, and on and on.

Wasn't this case on AMW a couple of times?