Armed Woman, 75, Wearing Steelers Ski Mask Holds Up Bank

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WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. -- Police have captured an elderly woman who they say tried to rob a bank with a gun in West Mifflin on Monday morning.

Officers said the attempted hold-up happened at a National City Bank inside a Shop 'n Save grocery store in the Century Square shopping plaza at about 10:30 a.m.

Police said that Marilyn Devine, 75, from Baldwin, wore a Steelers ski mask during the holdup and escaped in a tan Ford Escort with $5,000. After a five-mile pursuit at speeds of 45 miles per hour, police said they pulled Devine over.

Devine confessed after being caught, police said. She is being held at the West Mifflin police station.

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