A man was charged with a $565,000 bank robbery in which his girlfriend — an assistant bank manager — was forced to strap on a fake bomb so she would seem to be a hostage and could take the money.
The woman said she was abducted in September from her home and forced to put on what she believed was a real bomb. Her abductors told her if she didn’t help steal the money the bomb would explode, according to the indictment.
She went to her Bank of America Corp. branch in Huntington Park, got an employee to help her take the money from a vault and left it outside, where the robbers picked it up and fled, authorities said. The money has not been recovered.
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