HAMILTON, Ohio–A 75-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to robbing a credit union.
Ann Mayers pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and a reduced firearms specification, from three years to one year during a robbery at a branch of AurGroup Credit Union.
A charge of tampering with evidence was dismissed. Mayers faces a max consecutive prison sentence of 17 and a half years.
“During the court hearing, the judge told Mayers she would be able to talk during sentencing, but she seemed to break the rules of the order by saying out loud, ‘I did what I did’,” according to WLWT.
The news outlet reported that during the hearing it was revealed that Mayers wrote letters of apology to the two of the tellers at the credit union.
‘I Admitted It’
"‘I admitted what I did’," Mayers said to the judge when he asked if she understood the guilty plea operates as an admission of the charge in the plea agreement,” WLWT reported.
According to court documents, Mayers displayed a handgun at the bank and threw the clothes she wore out her car window after the robbery, the report states, adding that detectives said evidence was found inside Mayers' vehicle, including a handgun. Police took her into custody at her home later that day.
Alleged Scam Victim
According to a police report cited by WLWT, Mayers said she had money problems during an interview, and that's what led to the alleged robbery. The investigative report states that Mayers allegedly had been sending money to someone claiming to be with U.S. Customs, the report added.