A suspect accused of robbing a bank in downtown Davis on Wednesday allegedly made a critical error in her getaway plans: Locking her keys inside her car. Durham resident Laura Jane Murray, 48, walked into the Union Bank on the 300 block of E Street on Wednesday afternoon and handed a note to a bank teller, according to the Davis Police Department.
The bank teller gave Murray an undisclosed amount of cash and she left the bank and walked to her car, parked in a nearby lot. When she arrived, she discovered her keys were still inside her locked car, police said.
Authorities said Murray stopped a delivery driver at a nearby FedEx store and asked to borrow a crowbar to smash out her car window. She ended up trying to use a tool from a nearby truck to break the window, without success. Davis police arrived to find Murray still trying to break into her own car. Murray was arrested at the scene without further incident.
"A lot of these criminal don't anticipate these types of things and the little screw-ups they make ... we just catch the dumb ones quicker," said Davis Police Lt. Thomas Waltz. Murray is suspected in two other bank robberies in the Central Valley; one in Chico and another in Oroville.
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