A 78-year-old girl with two previous financial institution theft convictions faces new prices after authorities allege she handed a teller a word that mentioned, “I did not imply to scare you” throughout a latest Missouri heist.
Bonnie Gooch is jailed on $US25,000 ($A37,500) bond after she was charged with one rely of stealing or making an attempt to steal from a monetary establishment within the holdup on Wednesday in Nice Hill, The Kansas Metropolis Star reports. No lawyer is listed for her in on-line court docket data.
She additionally was convicted of robbing a California financial institution in 1977 and one within the Kansas Metropolis suburb of Lee’s Summit in 2020. Her probation within the second heist led to November 2021.
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Court docket paperwork filed in Cass County within the newest case mentioned the theft word demanded “13,000 small payments,” including “thanks sorry I did not imply to scare you.” Surveillance video additionally captured her banging on the counter, asking the teller to rush, Cass County prosecutors mentioned.
She smelled strongly of alcohol when officers stopped her lower than 3.2km away, with money scattered on the automobile’s floorboard, prosecutors added.
“It is simply unhappy,” Nice Hill Police Chief Tommy Wright mentioned, including that the suspect had no identified illnesses.
