Daughter, mom held in 2 robberies

Jamar Younger

Arizona Daily Star

Saturday, January 8, 2011 12:00 am

   

   

 

A 71-year-old woman and her daughter were arrested Friday on suspicion of robbing two banks last summer, Tucson police said.

Evelyn L. Ward and Bonnie Jane Jasmer, 47, are each facing one count of robbery and one count of armed robbery, and two counts each of aggravated robbery, according to a Tucson police news release.

Police said Jasmer was the driver of the car used in both robberies.

Ward and Jasmer were connected to a robbery at a Tucson Federal Credit Union office on Aug. 28 and another incident at a Bank of the West branch in July.

In the robbery at the Tucson Federal Credit Union office at 3755 S. Mission Road, a woman entered the bank and gave a note to the teller, police said.

A handgun was used in the robbery of the Bank of the West, 3041 S. Kinney Road, on July 21. That case was investigated by the Pima County Sheriff's Department.

The two were booked into the Pima County jail.

Man held in third robbery

Also on Friday, police made an arrest in another bank robbery.

Benjamin B. Kramer, 37, who has a general-delivery address, is facing charges of robbing the Bank of America branch at 5502 E. Grant Road on Thursday.

Detectives learned the man showed a note and implied that he had a weapon.

He left the bank and ran east through the parking lot and into the Alamo Wash.

Police officers arrested Kramer after they contacted him on an unrelated matter.