IU student arrested for bank robbery

An IU student admitted to robbing a Bloomington bank the Friday before spring break, said Bloomington Police Department Sgt. David Drake, reading from a police report. Margaret Baurley, a junior at IU and a 2002 graduate of Bloomington High School North, was arrested and preliminarily charged with robbery, a Class C felony, March 11.\nBaurley appeared in court March 17 and pleaded not guilty, said Monroe County Judge Viola Taliaferro.\nDrake said Baurley told police she robbed the Regions Bank on South College Mall Road but had burned or thrown away much of the money. Baurley also told police that she left some of the money with a friend in Indianapolis, Drake said, but when officers went to that residence to retrieve it, the money was not there.\nAccording to the report, officers received a tip March 11 that the robber was someone named "Maggy" who lived in the 800 block of South Washington Street. Officers obtained a search warrant for the residence and found clothing matching the suspect's apparel at the time of the robbery and a money wrapper from the bank.\nOfficers located Baurley later that night at a house in the 1400 block of South Washington Street, where she admitted the crime, according to the report. \nBaurley was transported to Monroe County Jail that night and bonded out the next morning after posting a $5,000 surety bond and $500 cash.\nThe robbery occurred March 10 at Regions Bank, 965 S. College Mall Rd. According to the police report, a white female in her early 20s and wearing grey sweatpants, a red ballcap and a red windbreaker presented a note demanding money be placed in her purse. After the bank did so, the suspect ran out of the building toward the nearby Jackson Creek Kroger. No weapon was displayed and the suspect escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash, according to the report.\nDrake said it is uncommon for an IU student to be involved in a crime like this.\n"It would be rare that an IU student commits a bank robbery," he said. "Sometimes students get involved with drug robberies, but to rob a bank -- it's very unusual"