MILWAUKEE -- Three Milwaukee women came up with a plot to rob a bank where one of them works and got away with it until one of the women made a critical mistake, Milwaukee police said.
The TCF bank on Good Hope Road has been the scene of several bank robberies in recent months. Police said that inspired a teller there to concoct a plot with her girlfriends.
Alexandra Lay was not at home Thursday afternoon when 12 News reporter Colleen Henry tried to find her.
Lay is out on bail after police arrested her and her friends, Shanequa Yancey, and Tiara Maclin.
According to the criminal complaint, Lay was working when Yancey walked into the bank dressed all in black, announced a holdup, and jumped the counter, pointing her finger like a gun.
Police said Lay had told Yancey how to avoid security measures, that she took every bundle of money except the one that set off an alarm and ran outside where Maclin waited in the getaway car.
According to police, that inside connection at TCF paid off. They split $100,000 and got away with it for almost a month until one of them started bragging.
Police arrested the women. Lay denied setting up the heist but admitted she warned her friends police were looking for the getaway car.
Maclin and Yancey told police they spent their split on cars. "You think they bought cars with that money?" neighbor Ellen Gray asked Henry.
"That's what it says in the criminal complaint. They got $100,000," Henry said.
Yancey's neighbors knew nothing about the bank robbery, but said they were surprised by the expensive cars her friends drove and Yancey's new Audi.
"They were fancy cars, real nice cars because I remember thinking, 'These young people. I wonder what kind of job they got because they got better cars than I do,'" Gray said.
Lay made $5,000 bail. Maclin and Yancey are still in the county jail. If convicted, each of the women faces a maximum 40-year sentence. All three women are scheduled to appear in court next week.
The TCF bank on Good Hope Road has been the scene of several bank robberies in recent months. Police said that inspired a teller there to concoct a plot with her girlfriends.
Alexandra Lay was not at home Thursday afternoon when 12 News reporter Colleen Henry tried to find her.
Lay is out on bail after police arrested her and her friends, Shanequa Yancey, and Tiara Maclin.
According to the criminal complaint, Lay was working when Yancey walked into the bank dressed all in black, announced a holdup, and jumped the counter, pointing her finger like a gun.
Police said Lay had told Yancey how to avoid security measures, that she took every bundle of money except the one that set off an alarm and ran outside where Maclin waited in the getaway car.
According to police, that inside connection at TCF paid off. They split $100,000 and got away with it for almost a month until one of them started bragging.
Police arrested the women. Lay denied setting up the heist but admitted she warned her friends police were looking for the getaway car.
Maclin and Yancey told police they spent their split on cars. "You think they bought cars with that money?" neighbor Ellen Gray asked Henry.
"That's what it says in the criminal complaint. They got $100,000," Henry said.
Yancey's neighbors knew nothing about the bank robbery, but said they were surprised by the expensive cars her friends drove and Yancey's new Audi.
"They were fancy cars, real nice cars because I remember thinking, 'These young people. I wonder what kind of job they got because they got better cars than I do,'" Gray said.
Lay made $5,000 bail. Maclin and Yancey are still in the county jail. If convicted, each of the women faces a maximum 40-year sentence. All three women are scheduled to appear in court next week.