A female senior citizen and would-be repeat bank robber was nabbed by police when she tried to rob the same bank a second time, also claiming for a second time that she had the AIDS virus and would infect the employees, as reported by the Denver Westword, the Longmont Times-Call and others.
Longmont Police spokesman, Commander Jeff Satur, said that sixty-four year old D.N. successfully robbed the Wells Fargo Bank in a Safeway supermarket in Longmont on June 9, 2011. Satur said, "She had a note demanding all the money, and it said something about infecting the bank employee with AIDS."
Satur said that the bank employees didn't know exactly how D.N. could transfer the virus to them, and the note she gave them didn't detail it, but they took her seriously. The clerk that gave her the money, and undisclosed amount, simply complied.
On March 27, 2012, at 6:15 p.m., D.N. returned to the same branch and attempted the same ploy. This time, however, employees didn't wait for her to hand over her note and make her demands.
Employees observed that D.N. appeared nervous while in the line and left the bank before approaching a clerk.
Satur said, "She walked into the bank with a note in her hand" and "three of the employees there were present during the June 9 robbery, so they immediately recognized her, got on the phone and called 911."
Police arrived so soon that they were able to apprehend D.N. still at the scene – she was sitting in her in the parking lot. Satur said, "They searched her car and found a note indicating that the employees were being watched by two other people, and they should give her all the money, but no dye packs."
In regards to D.N.'s choice to rob the exact same bank branch a second time, Satur commented to reporters, "You don't see that with bank robberies so much. But that's how criminals establish an M.O., a modus operandi. They do something and it works for them the first time, so they continue to use that pattern. In this case, she did the robbery, it worked for her, so she stuck to the pattern."
Satur felt that D.N. had a chance at success a second time. He credited the swift work of the bank's employees by spotting her and immediately calling for police. Satur added, "Those guys deserve all the credit. They did a tremendous job. They were aware of their surroundings, on top of things, and when she walked in, they were on the phone. That really helped us to get her arrested."
In regards to the possibility of D.N. committing any other bank robberies Satur said, "We don't believe she has done any others out of town."
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