Crime & Safety
Police Arrest Woman After Attempted Bank Robbery
San Bruno police investigators are looking into an attempted robbery at a Chase bank after a Menlo Park woman threatened to rob the bank and claimed to have explosives.
Police arrested a Menlo Park woman Wednesday after she reportedly threatened to hold up the Chase Bank in Towne Center with a bomb.
Jacqueline Casalou, 50, was apprehended shortly after bank employees alerted police. She is in custody on suspicion of robbery, police said.
Officers responded to a report of a robbery in progress at the bank, located at 1200 El Camino Real, at about 10:41 a.m. Bank employees told officers that Casalou was demanding cash and claiming to have explosives, police said.
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According to police, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office was called to the bank and sent in a bomb-sniffing dog. After a search, however, no explosives were found, police said.
The case has been assigned to investigators. Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call the San Bruno Police Department at 650-616-7100.
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