daily insights | December 31, 2025

What happened at Pleasant Hill? Bank robbery suspect identified as 78-year-old woman

78-year-elderly person Bonnie Gooch was captured in Charming Slope, Missouri, on Wednesday, April 05, 2023, for looting a bank.

The occurrence occurred a short while after noontime at Goppert Monetary Bank. Following a call about the endeavored burglary, cops expeditiously hurried to the scene. While on their way, they got a report on the suspect’s depiction and vehicle, which was before long spotted.

Officials directed a traffic stop and blocked the driver, Gooch, who was arrested. Moreover, cops found proof connecting the 78-year-old Lovely Slope inhabitant to the burglary after examining the vehicle.

Wonderful Slope Police Boss Thomas Wright, in his proclamation to Fox 4 News, communicated his mistrust over the capture, expressing:

“Clearly it was what was going on. In any case, when the hands of an old lady emerge from the vehicle and that is who is driving the suspect vehicle, it’s somewhat surprising.”
Bonnie was arrested without occurrence.

In 2002, Bonnie Gooch was captured and sentenced for one more bank heist at Lee’s Highest point in Missouri. Notwithstanding, the then 75-year-old had her sentence suspended and she was delivered waiting on the post trial process that finished in November 2021.

As indicated by Fox 4 News, Gooch’s child remarked at the time that his mother was “crazy.” He added that she went out irate and let him know that, “she planned to burglarize a bank.”

In light of the subtleties given by the police in the two burglaries, Bonnie gave a note to the bank employees to begin the burglary.

In court records for her 2020 case, it was uncovered that Gooch was likewise sentenced for an alternate bank burglary in California. The robbery being referred to occurred in California in 1977, 46 years before Wednesday’s wrongdoing. Bonnie would have been 32 at the hour of the episode.

89-year-old Maggie Kornis, who was near the Wonderful Slope bank at the hour of the episode, told Fox News, Kornis later added that she accepted Gooch carried out the wrongdoing since she was “frantic” and “needed more cash.”

In a different episode, a 65-year-elderly person burglarized a bank trying to get captured On Monday, Walk 6, 2023, a 65-year-elderly person cordially ransacked a bank in Salt Lake City, Utah, of $1. The man gave a note to the teller that read:
“If it’s not too much trouble, excuse me for doing this however this is a burglary. If it’s not too much trouble, give me $1. Much obliged to you.”

Cops before long showed up at the scene where the man was hanging tight for them. He purportedly would not leave and, surprisingly, told the police he would ransack another bank assuming that he was delivered.

Bonnie Gooch was charged in Cass District and her bail bond was set at $25,000. In the mean time, the Charming Slope Boss expressed that assessments are in progress to guarantee that Gooch needn’t bother with any monetary or clinical assistance.