The incident started at about 2:30 p.m. Monday when the woman and her 4-year-old son were shopping at a Goodwill store. A woman approached the victim and asked for directions to the Lafayette post office, according to a Lafayette Police Department media release.
As the victim was giving directions, a man approached and joined the conversation. The victim, her son and the man and woman asking for directions got into the victim’s vehicle, and she drove to a local elementary school to pick up her 8-year-old daughter.
That’s when the man, in the front passenger seat, brandished a gun and ordered the victim to drive to her bank in Louisville, police said.
The female accomplice stayed outside in the car with the children as the robber went with the victim into the bank, where she withdrew money.
The pair forced the victim to drive to her home in Lafayette, and they stole more money from her, police said.
The robbers then forced the victim to drive them back to the area of the Goodwill store, where they were dropped off a short distance apart.
A witness in the area said he saw the male robber being picked up by a white, late-model sedan with out-of-state plates driven by a woman.
The woman robber is described as Spanish-speaking, about 5-foot-4 and 180 pounds, about the age of 50 with tattooed eyebrows. The man is described as Spanish-speaking, about 6-foot-0 with a large build, about the age of 40, with dark hair and eyeglasses.
Anyone with information on the incident or suspects is asked call police at 303 665-5571 or 303 604-8014.
