#Iconic Facce guilty of robbing bank to finance plastic surgery

The bandages are off — but the charges are sticking.

An Alabama woman named Iconic Facce was found guilty this week on two counts of armed robbery after holding up a Mississippi bank two years ago — a crime she allegedly committed to fund her plastic surgery.

Facce’s case was originally slated for trial on June 28, 2021, but the surgery-obsessed thief requested to plead guilty beforehand.

After the 39-year-old’s plea, Circuit Judge Randi Peresich Mueller sentenced Facce to the maximum term of 15 years on each count to run concurrently, NBC News reported.

The Ozark native’s charges stem from a 2019 heist of the BancorpSouth in Gulfport, Mississippi. At the time, prosecutors argued that her plan was to rob banks to finance sexual reassignment surgery, according to AL.com.

Gulfport police had been alerted to Facce’s 2019 crime by a hidden alarm activated by the besieged bank branch. Upon their arrival, bank employees informed officers that the suspect had approached a teller window and handed the clerk a hand-scrawled note that read: “You have 1 min to give the money do not be wrong or die.” 

No weapon was seen or shown, although tellers did recall that the suspect had a swollen face indicative of a recent cosmetic operation.

The robbery was captured on the surveillance system, while authorities discovered an abandoned Cadillac near the bank, which they traced back to Facce, according to the Associated Press reported.

Meanwhile, authorities sent still images of the serial surgery recipient with a memo imploring the public to help ID the suspect.

Tellers were easily able to recognize the suspected criminal’s “Iconic Facce” in a photo lineup.

The criminal was detained March 30, 2019 at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport after re-entering the country from Mexico. It was suspected she had received her bank job-funded procedure there as subsequent mugshots showed her sporting surgical tape around her nose.

This was apparently not the bank robber’s first job — so to speak.

Under her birth name of Jimmy Maurice Lewis II, Facce was found guilty at age 26 of another robbery on January 20, 2009, in the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, AL.com reported. Facce was sentenced and served 51 months in federal prison on that case, in which she reportedly demanded a teller give her at least $20,000.

After her release, she legally changed her name to Iconic Facce, Fox News reported.