robber with one special request

It's a bizarre example of juggling work and home life — a 37-year-old mother of two in the US robbed a bank on her way to pick up kids from school, a media report said.

Erica Anderson went into an Umpqua Bank branch in Grants Pass and handed the teller a note demanding cash with one special request — not to call the police for 15 minutes as she had to pick her kids from school.

"The note also instructed the teller to wait 15 minutes before calling law enforcement or else two kids wouldn't make it home from school," Detective Sgt Dennis Ward was quoted as saying. Anderson fled the bank with $1,300 with Joshua K Deeter Tseu, 19, driving the getaway car, said Ward, and the officers who responded within minutes were baffled and concerned by the note, fearing children were in danger. Instead, said Ward, "She didn't want to be late picking up her kids."

A resident who witnessed the pair's getaway provided the cops with enough information to track down Anderson. She was arrested in her driveway, not long after picking up her children at a local elementary school. Both her daughters were munching on ice cream bars at the time when the officers arrived at the scene.

Anderson reportedly appeared concerned about what might happen to her daughters following her arrest. "But I guess if she was really all that concerned about their welfare," adds Ward, "she probably wouldn't be committing bank robbery."

Both Anderson and Tseu are being held on $50,000 bail and are charged with first-degree theft and second-degree robbery. "We average between three and five bank robberies a year," says Ward. "But I don't think I've ever heard of anything quite like this." agencies