Woman Robs Bank to Pay Off Bad Check?
July 18, 2001 6:38 am EST
UNION CITY, Tenn. (Reuters) - When a judge ordered a Tennessee woman to make good on $1,100 in bad checks, she employed her own brand of creative financing and robbed a bank.
Paige Morphis, 29, left the courthouse after a hearing on Monday on a bad check charge, used a handgun to hold up the First State Bank in her nearby home town of Rives, Tennessee, and fled into a cornfield, said Obion County Chief Deputy Sheriff Heath Cunningham.
"A teller in the bank recognized her and a search was started in the cornfield," he said.
Morphis eluded the search party, returned to the courthouse and paid off the bad checks, Cunningham said. "Then she went home where we arrested her. We also confiscated about $7,000 left from the bank's money."
Only in America ...
July 18, 2001 6:38 am EST
UNION CITY, Tenn. (Reuters) - When a judge ordered a Tennessee woman to make good on $1,100 in bad checks, she employed her own brand of creative financing and robbed a bank.
Paige Morphis, 29, left the courthouse after a hearing on Monday on a bad check charge, used a handgun to hold up the First State Bank in her nearby home town of Rives, Tennessee, and fled into a cornfield, said Obion County Chief Deputy Sheriff Heath Cunningham.
"A teller in the bank recognized her and a search was started in the cornfield," he said.
Morphis eluded the search party, returned to the courthouse and paid off the bad checks, Cunningham said. "Then she went home where we arrested her. We also confiscated about $7,000 left from the bank's money."
Only in America ...