MUNCIE, Ind. – Two men charged last week in the May armed robbery of $250,000 at Industrial Centre FCU told police they chose the credit union for the heist after they saw a Brinks truck make a cash delivery earlier that morning.
One of the men, identified as John Repass, 29, who was arrested in Midvale City, Utah, told police that he and two accomplices discussed robbing a bank for several months, and picked the credit union because one of the accomplices knew someone who worked there. During Repass' arrest, police seized cash and a handgun allegedly used in the robbery.
Also charged in the robbery are Stanley Wills, also 29, and his girlfriend, Maranda Conley, 28.
Wills was still at large last week, though authorities said he was attempting to negotiate his surrender.
The men, wearing disguises and armed with a handgun, walked into the credit union around 1 pm on May 27. Repass took the male employees to a back room, while Wills took the female employees to the vault, according to police. The robbers made their getaway in a car driven by Conley, according to court records.
Conley allegedly obtained disguises and handguns for Repass and Wills, who had been driving around the credit union on May 27 when they saw a Brinks truck make a delivery. It was then they decided to rob it.
Wills' cousin tipped police that Wills and Repass robbed the credit union, according to court documents. She also said Dianna Borson, Wills' ex-girlfriend and an ex-employee of the credit union who was convicted of embezzlement, helped set up the robbery.
The cousin also told police that Conley had stacks of $20 bills and a garbage bag of bills that she kept at her house. Both money and disguises were seized when she was arrested June 16.
Court documents also indicated that Wills bought a car and motorcycle with the cash after he and Repass left town. Wills' father told police he saw his son with $11,000 in cash a couple days after the robbery, and after he had just given him $20 just to buy food and cigarettes.
