Santa Cruz police have arrested a woman for an attempted robbery of the Wells Fargo on River Street on Tuesday afternoon.
Officers responded to a report of an attempted bank robbery at about 1:28 p.m. Tuesday. Deputy Chief Jon Bush told Lookout that a female suspect gave a note to one of the bank tellers demanding cash and claiming that she had a gun.
However, the suspect soon fled on foot without receiving any money. Police began searching for her after receiving a description from the teller, but didn’t make much progress until reviewing the bank’s security camera footage. Within the hour, police found a woman named Michelle Hendrickson a few blocks away. Bush said she matched the person seen in the security footage, and still had the demand note she slipped to the teller.
“We don’t see attempted bank robberies very often, maybe a few per year,” Bush said. “They are pretty rare.”
Bush said Hendrickson is new to the area, but already had a prior arrest in Santa Cruz “a couple weeks ago” for “a battery related incident.”
A local representative of Wells Fargo said the situation “didn’t really stir us up too much,” and “wasn’t as bad as it could have been,” but declined to comment further.
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