FBI Probes Copycat CU Kidnap/Robbery

- TOLEDO, Ohio (12/21/01) - The FBI is hunting fortwo armed assailants who held a manager of Jeep FCU hostage withher family, then forced her in the middle of the night to take oneto the credit union for a robbery, in a scenario eerily reminiscentof a recent hit movie. The manager, identified as Kathy Scholl, wasleft unharmed in her pajamas in the credit union parking lot afterthe crooks made off with an undisclosed amount of cash, "Of course,emotionally, she was pretty shaken up," Carl Spicocchi, head of theFBI's Toledo office, told The Credit Union Journal. The crimeresembles the plot of a recent movie, called 'Heist' in which armedrobbers kidnap bank managers the night before a robbery, then forcethem to take them to the bank the following morning. Spicocchiacknowledged the similarity to the movie and said they wereinvestigating whether there were any other robberies with aresemblance. The men broke into Scholl's home in suburban Toledoearly on Monday. One of them held her husband and daughter hostageat the house while the other forced her to drive him about 10 milesto the credit union.