A 74-year-old Ohio woman is accused of robbing a bank at gunpoint, family says she is a scam victim

A 74-year-old Ohio woman is accused of robbing a bank at gunpoint, family says she is a scam victim

Ann Mayers was arrested in her home in Hamilton, Ohio after the Fairfield Township Police Department said she robbed an AurGroup Credit Union. The credit union’s employees told police that a woman entered the bank on April 19 and “demanded money while displaying a handgun,” police said in a Facebook post.

According to a news release, the Fairfield Township Police Department responded at 1:29 p.m. EDT on Friday after receiving a report of a robbery at the AurGroup Credit Union in Fairfield.

Mayers, who police said did not have a criminal record, left the bank in a silver 2014 Hyundai Elantra, police said

While at Mayers’ home, police found the 2014 silver Hyundai Elantra she was allegedly driving during the robbery and a a handgun found in her vehicle.

• Mayers admitted to the robbery when police arrived at the house, so officers subsequently took her into custody, the department said.

Police later learned that Mayers may have been a scam victim after detectives spoke with her family who told them she was sending money to an “unidentified individual.

• “In that aspect, some may see her as a ‘victim.’ Unfortunately, Ann chose to victimize several other people in the bank by robbing it with a firearm as a remedy for her situation,” McCroskey said.