Thai police arrest American dubbed "ponytail bandit"

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - An American woman has been arrested in Thailand as the suspected ''ponytail bandit'' in

string of U.S. bank robberies.

Thai immigration police say they were acting on an FBI tip when they arrested 21-year-old Morgan Michelle Hoke at a Bangkok hotel. The police say her husband and alleged accomplice, 26-year-old Stuart Michael Romine, remains on the run in Thailand.

Hoke earned her nickname after bank surveillance video from a Texas robbery surfaced, purportedly showing her donning a University of Texas baseball cap with her ponytail hanging down her back.

Austin, Texas, police say she might have robbed a bank in Lynnwood, Washington, and a bank in Roseville, California, in May.

Hoke was expected to be handed to American authorities later today for extradition to the United States. The Austin American-Statesman reports that after the first of three robberies in Texas, Hoke and Romine dashed off to Las Vegas to be married.