Brandy Greulich, 33, from Bellevue, Pa, pulled up to a bank’s drive-thru window and tried to rob the bank. She claimed she had a bomb in her car.
Greulich pulled up and handed the teller a note, according to a criminal complaint filed by Bellevue police.
The note said “they were being watched and that there were bombs in the car and throughout the bank and at the homes of the employees and if they got caught they would all die,” the complaint said.
The teller hit an alarm, summoning police. Greulich, at first, continued to tell police that she was forced to rob the bank by unidentified bad guys, saying, “They said they would kill me and my son if I didn’t” rob the bank, the complaint said.
Eventually, Greulich acknowledged making up the whole thing, police said.
“She admitted that there was no bomb in the car, that that part of the note was a hoax,” said Bellevue Sgt. Matthew Lucas. “My understanding is that she’s just on tough times right now, lost a job recently, a single mom.”
The report prompted police to call out the Allegheny County bomb squad and to evacuate the bank and several nearby businesses as well as nearby Bellevue Elementary School.
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