The scam was enacted by someone posing as a customs official.
I'm willing to bet it started out earlier as an internet romance connection she'd sent money to, who promised to pay her back with the gold bars he'd been "given as a gift for saving the life of a Middle Eastern prince".
She would get her money back as promised and they would start a new life together with all of that gold.
Then "problems" happened at customs, she wanted her original investment back, plus all that billion in bullion and sent even MORE money.
The sunk-cost fallacy.
She borrowed $5,000 from her sister and $65,000 from a friend after depleting whatever resources she had.
She seems to believe she'll be forgiven for brandishing a gun and robbing a federal institution because SHE was wronged.
She should have sold her 2014 Elantra before borrowing money from friends and family, that tells me a lot about her character.
She needs to serve the standard sentence for this crime.
Too bad she doesn't have a @cubby in her life who would have slapped that phone right out of her hand the first call!!
Ann Mayers, 74
Ohio
"Surveillance cameras captured the crime on Friday afternoon.
"The tellers in the bank, they were terrified. They saw the gun. They’re I’m sure scarred from this. It’s terrifying to be held up especially with a gun involved not knowing what the person’s intentions are,” said Brandon McCroskey, the Fairfield Township Police Sgt.
While some people might sympathize with the 74-year-old woman, McCroskey said she knew exactly what she was doing and had even talked about robbing a bank with her sister in the days before."
“I don’t think her sister really thought she was serious,” said McCroskey.
But she was so serious McCroskey said she tried to hide her identity by taking the license plate off her car and tried to remove a bumper sticker."
[ and she threw the clothes that she wore out of the car window on the way home, and she also stopped to return a pair of jeans that she purchased at Ross.]
"McCroskey said the woman had recently been scammed out of thousands of dollars from someone online. She also owed money to family and friends.
Police said before the bank heist she had no criminal history."
"When police arrested Mayers they found the money and the gun, which McCroskey said was loaded."
She's got several Facebook pages.
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I'm willing to bet it started out earlier as an internet romance connection she'd sent money to, who promised to pay her back with the gold bars he'd been "given as a gift for saving the life of a Middle Eastern prince".
She would get her money back as promised and they would start a new life together with all of that gold.
Then "problems" happened at customs, she wanted her original investment back, plus all that billion in bullion and sent even MORE money.
The sunk-cost fallacy.
She borrowed $5,000 from her sister and $65,000 from a friend after depleting whatever resources she had.
She seems to believe she'll be forgiven for brandishing a gun and robbing a federal institution because SHE was wronged.
She should have sold her 2014 Elantra before borrowing money from friends and family, that tells me a lot about her character.
She needs to serve the standard sentence for this crime.
Too bad she doesn't have a @cubby in her life who would have slapped that phone right out of her hand the first call!!
Ann Mayers, 74
Ohio
"Surveillance cameras captured the crime on Friday afternoon.
"The tellers in the bank, they were terrified. They saw the gun. They’re I’m sure scarred from this. It’s terrifying to be held up especially with a gun involved not knowing what the person’s intentions are,” said Brandon McCroskey, the Fairfield Township Police Sgt.
While some people might sympathize with the 74-year-old woman, McCroskey said she knew exactly what she was doing and had even talked about robbing a bank with her sister in the days before."
“I don’t think her sister really thought she was serious,” said McCroskey.
But she was so serious McCroskey said she tried to hide her identity by taking the license plate off her car and tried to remove a bumper sticker."
[ and she threw the clothes that she wore out of the car window on the way home, and she also stopped to return a pair of jeans that she purchased at Ross.]
"McCroskey said the woman had recently been scammed out of thousands of dollars from someone online. She also owed money to family and friends.
Police said before the bank heist she had no criminal history."
"When police arrested Mayers they found the money and the gun, which McCroskey said was loaded."
She's got several Facebook pages.
74-year-old suspected bank robber recently lost thousands to online scammer, police say
Surveillance cameras captured the crime on Friday afternoon.
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