A mother and daughter are in custody in connection with a bank robbery in Westminster in which tellers were allegedly threatened with a bomb.
However, the mother told 9News that she had no idea her daughter even went into the bank building.
“All this time she was robbing a bank and I didn’t know,” 53-year-old Norma Edwina Sisneros told the television station.
At 4:40 p.m., officers were called to the TCF Bank at West 72nd Avenue and Federal Boulevard on a report of a holdup, said Trevor Materasso, spokesman for the Westminster Police Department.
A woman identified as Tina Roxanne Guerrero, 31, was seen by witnesses entering the bank carrying a duffel bag in which she said there was a bomb.
Guerrero grabbed an undisclosed amount of cash before darting out of the bank to a waiting brown SUV, allegedly driven by her mother.
Soon after, the SUV was spotted and stopped near 75th Avenue and Broadway.
Sisneros was arrested at the scene. Guerrero ran away but was found hiding in the laundry room of a nearby apartment complex.
