SEVERANCE, Colo. (USA TODAY) — A babysitter is accused of robbing a bank with the two kids she was watching in her car.
Rachel Einspahr, 28, of Evans, Colo., was charged with robbery and two counts of child cruelty after two suspects were detained in connection with the Friday robbery of a Colorado East Bank & Trust in this town of 3,400 people.
She later told investigators that she wanted to use money from the robbery to pay $15,000 up front as part of her restitution in a forgery and felony theft case in Evans, according to an arrest affidavit.
Around 4:05 p.m. MT Friday, the Weld County Sheriff's Office was notified of a robbery in which an undisclosed amount of money was taken after a woman gave a note to a teller through the vacuum tube at the bank's drive-through window.
Einspahr is accused of passing the note, which said a man in her car wanted money and was threatening to harm her children, according to the sheriff's office. The bank teller, assuming lives were in danger, gave her $500.
Investigators later learned that Einspahr was a babysitter employed to care for the two children in her car at the time of the robbery. The children were unharmed.
She later told detectives that she had planned the robbery and that no one else was involved, according to an arrest affidavit.
Einspahr has been held since Friday with out bail at Weld County Jail in Greeley, Colo. She previously had been arrested April 20 on warrants for failure to appear and flight to avoid prosecution, according to jail records.
