WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. -- Police have captured an elderly woman who they say tried to rob a bank with a gun in West Mifflin on Monday morning.
Officers said the attempted holdup happened at a National City Bank inside a Shop 'n Save grocery store in the Century Square shopping plaza at about 10:30 a.m.
Police said that Marilyn Devine, 75, from Baldwin, wore a Steelers ski mask during the holdup and escaped in a tan Ford Escort with $5,000.
After a five-mile pursuit at speeds of 45 mph, police pulled Devine over.
Devine confessed after being caught, police said.
She is being held at the West Mifflin police station.
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You've got to be shitting me.
Posted by: Cinderella
lol maybe her kniting class was cancelled that day!
Posted by: copscopsme
I wonder if she will plead insanity
Posted by: 94c
I would have done the old alzheimer's routine. works everytime. time. time. time. time. time. time....
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"and in other Social Security relates news......."
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