GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A woman was sentenced Tuesday to nearly six years in prison for robbing two Michigan banks while on a trip to visit her son — a police officer. She also admitted to 10 other robberies in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Margaret Ann Thomas-Irving's arrest capped a nine-month crime spree in which the 58-year-old grandmother held up four banks, two savings and loans, two restaurants and two Dunkin' Donuts shops. The robberies netted just under $20,000.
The Hartford, Conn., woman was arrested in 2003 on the same day she allegedly robbed two banks in Lansing. She pleaded guilty in February to two counts of bank robbery.