bONNIE AND cLYDE duo were detained after a robbery in the town of Torrox, southern Spain last Friday and are suspected of holding up a string of banks on the Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca.
Police said the pair may have stolen £100,000 during 15 bank raids over the past three years.
A spokesman for the Civil Guard in Malaga, which led the operation, said: "They always acted together with the same modus operandi.
"The woman rang a bell to get into the bank and when staff let her in, her companion went in behind her with a gun in his hand.
"In some cases, employees had a pistol held to their heads."
Undercover police arrested the pair at a motorway toll booth near Marbella last Friday morning after their car was matched to the getaway vehicle thought to have been used in the Torrox bank raid.
The couple were stopped by officers posing as toll booth workers. Nearly £8,000 and a gun were discovered in the car.
Officers had been trying to catch the culprits since April after a hold-up at a bank in the Costa del Sol resort of Mijas.
The spokesman said: "Thanks to security cameras installed in the banks and collaboration from witnesses who saw the raids, the couple were identified when they were arrested.
"Although the investigation began this year, the Civil Guard has established during its inquiries that the couple could have first struck in 2008.
"At the moment, they have been named as official suspects in 15 bank raids committed over the past three years."
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