We had a bank robbery today. I answered a hang up from the bank and tried to call it back only to be hung up on again, so I sent a screen up to dispatch and called back.
I was sitting back in my chair expecting maybe a disturbance with a customer or nothing at all when a female finally answered the phone at the branch and told me they had just been robbed. I sat up and went into automatic and pumped her for information as fast as I could, nothing like a little adrenaline to get you going in the afternoon. Deputies responded as quickly as possible but the suspect was gone.
We have taken several calls from local residents with possible names of suspect but so far no one has been arrested. It is very unusual to have a female do these types of crimes however we have had 2 female armed robbers in the last month. We had one lady rob several business in Fort Pierce but she was caught when she went a picked up her 16 yoa daughter and her friend from K-mart and was on her way home when she was caught by LEO. She had the teenagers and her infant daughter in the vehicle.
This woman from today's robbery kept telling the bank employees to not let them hurt her kids. She was crying and repeated it several times. The theroys thrown around in the center are 1/ someone made her do it and threatened her children, 2/ she was so desperate to take care of her children she felt she had no other alternative, or 3/ she was hopped up on drugs out of her mind and looking for money to buy more drugs.
Who knows the detectives will figure it out eventually.
It's hard to say what will drive a woman to armed robbery but I am sure this trend will become more common as people have a harder time finding jobs and paying bills. We who are already in bad relationships may find themselves alone with no support trying to raise children on little or nothing. The economy is getting bad and we are just starting to see the effects.
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