78-year-old woman charged with multiple bank robberies in Missouri and Kansas City area

A 78-year-old woman with two past bank robbery convictions, Bonnie Gooch, faces new charges after allegedly handing a teller a note that said “I didn’t mean to scare you” during a recent Missouri heist. She is jailed on $25,000 bond and charged with one count of stealing or attempting to steal from a financial institution. Gooch was convicted of robbing a California bank in 1977 and one in the Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit in 2020. Surveillance video captured her banging on the counter, asking the teller to hurry, and she smelled strongly of alcohol when officers stopped her less than 2 miles away, with cash scattered on the car's floorboard.