Floating Getaway Foiled in Would-Be CU Heist

PROVO, Utah – A husband and wife were charged in federal court yesterday after they planned to rob the Utah Community CU branch at the mouth of the Provo River, then float down the river on inner tubes to make their escape. Patrick Burr, 46, and his wife, 33-year-old Heather Burr, were arrested after their plot was relayed to the U.S. Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms by an undercover informant working on a weapons case, authorities said. At one point, the informant accompanied Patrick Burr to the credit union branch where the two were caught on surveillance video ‘casing’ the set-up. The plan was scraped when Heather Burr’s car was impounded with the inner tubes still inside. Federal agents arrested the husband and wife after Patrick Burr planned to buy a gun and steal a car to use in the robbery, instead.