Ron "Lionheart" Palmer robbin banks!

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TweetPowerlifter Ron Palmer is reported to have been arrested on Monday for a string of armed bank robberies. Palmer is currently in jail awaiting a bond hearing.

Indiana's NBC Channel 13 reports:
Police in Greenwood arrested a couple linked to a string of robberies in four states after a chase Monday night on the south side.

Calling them a "modern-day Bonnie and Clyde", investigators say Ronald Palmer and Savannah Myers admitted to nearly a dozen crimes, most of them bank robberies. Myers was recently released from the Marion County Jail for a similar crime.

"They admitted to robberies in Louisville and Jeffersonville," said Matt Fillenwarth, Greenwood Police Department. "They admitted to a couple other robberies in the Indianapolis jurisdiction."

Police believe the duo is responsible for robberies in Missouri and Ohio as well. Investigators in Louisville and Jeffersonville contacted local police when they discovered the couple was living in Greenwood. Police there kept a close eye on the apartment, and followed the two when they left by car Monday evening.

Officers tried to pull them over on the interstate, but that resulted in a chase north on I-65 and finally to a Beech Grove hotel, where a foot chase ensued. Police chased the two across six lanes of rush hour traffic on the highway before the two were caught.

"You don't get too many male-female bank robbery teams. It was a little unusual," Fillenwarth said.

Police say Myers would go into the banks while Palmer, considered "the Michael Jordan of weightlifting" who won a contest as "strongest man in the world", drove the getaway car.

"That's what she liked to do, brandish the gun, go into the bank, order everyone down," Fillenwarth said.

Police say they found dye-stained money in the couple's apartment. They also say the couple led them to a gun used in two of the robberies hidden under a vending machine in the hotel where the car chase ended. A Greenwood officer was injured during the chase.

Myers was arrested for a bank robbery in Indianapolis and released on bond when she allegedly committed the crimes in Louisville and Jeffersonville. Both are currently in the Johnson County jail.

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