Mother of Three Jailed for Desperate CU Hold-Up

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A women who held up Alaska USA FCU last year to pay her back rent was sentenced Monday to four years in prison. Elizabeth Steele told the judge she robbed the credit union branch inside the Fred Meyer Store out of desperation becaue she didn’t have the money to pay rent for herself and three kids. The 35-year-old mother said she also used some of the money from the December 19 heists to buy Christmas gifts for her kids.

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