Posted on 03/10/2006 3:26:39 AM PST by beyond the sea
Great-grandmother Marilyn Devine had tears in her eyes when she walked out of the Allegheny County Jail and into the arms of her husband of 32 years.
Clinging to him Thursday evening, she apologized for robbing a West Mifflin bank. And although she spoke well of guards who watched over her in confinement, she said she thinks she has been punished enough.
"You don't know what stress it is to disgrace yourself and your family and spend four days in lockup, when you've been a good person your whole life," the 74-year-old Baldwin Borough woman said minutes after posting a $50,000 bond.
Earlier yesterday Devine waived her right to a preliminary hearing before West Mifflin District Judge Richard D. Olasz, who reduced her bond from $100,000 straight cash to $50,000 supported by real estate. Devine's family pledged the deed to their home.
"I just had a mental breakdown," she said of the incident that placed her in jail Monday. "I'm sorry that I did that and upset those young people. They were very professional about it. I wasn't out to intend to hurt anybody. I won't do anything like this again."
Police say Devine robbed the National City Bank in a supermarket off Lebanon Church Road with an unloaded 9 mm handgun and then led police on a 5.3-mile, 45-mph chase.
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Just asking.
ROFL!
Yeah ... I guess so ... LEO's are LEO's though ... I don't have an answer ... just ... it seems strange that this lady did what she did.
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