Jasmin Rivera, Accused Boston Bank Robber, Gave Money To Kids: Police

BOSTON -- Boston police say a woman suspected of robbing a city bank was caught a short time later handing out dollar bills to children at a park.

Police say workers at the Citizens Bank told them a woman walked into the branch just after 3 p.m. on Wednesday, passed a teller a note demanding money and warned she had a gun. She then left with an undisclosed amount of cash.

A cab driver told police that a fare had told him that she just robbed a bank.

Police found the suspect, Jasmin Rivera, at the park handing out money.

Rivera was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation at her arraignment Thursday. A doctor told a judge she has serious mental health issues. A not guilty plea was entered on her behalf.

Comments

[DeliciousBushMu]

08:08 AM on 01/01/2012

The old I'm crazy after i rob the bank trick...Not falling for that one

[artorius317]

06:38 AM on 12/31/2011

Like a modern day Robin Hood.....

[kayyy]

11:10 PM on 12/30/2011

So many of you express my thoughts so well.
Everyone please make it a point to scroll and read as many of these comments as possible. :)

[StevenRussell1]

10:54 PM on 12/30/2011

Male or female, all are sinners.

[StevenRussell1]

10:53 PM on 12/30/2011

"Nice" guy.

Yeah right. Glad he'll still be held accountable to God for theft and robbery.

[artorius317]

06:30 AM on 12/31/2011

You do know it was a woman who did this, right? And your god's not even here this time of year.

[hadafaone]

10:29 PM on 12/30/2011

thief.... she stole money from a bank that held deposits..possibly from the parents of the children she was giving $1 bills to...

[Corvairs68]

09:30 PM on 12/30/2011

Long live... Robyn Hood?

[Julie Ross Birmingham]

08:49 PM on 12/30/2011

How often I wished I coud do the same thing...not rob a bank..but go around handing out money.
My husband and I also want to have peoples teeth fixed. If I were a dentist I would do that
a lot of free dental work...yes indeed..we would..

[ibeyour1]

08:52 PM on 12/30/2011

you'd save a lot of lives if you had peoples teeth fixed. Wonderful thought

[scottt456]

09:37 PM on 12/30/2011

If we all just do what we can with we got, great things can happen! Every little bit helps.

[Julie Ross Birmingham]

10:13 PM on 12/30/2011

We have practiced that all our lives. The great thing in our life is seeing all the wonderful things which have been invented to use in our daily lives. When you see the things in an ICU..NICU or just plain hospital rooms..all that technology came straight out of the
space program. The Beatles were told they either pay I want to say taxes or support
the research on a Magnet machine..Beatles chose the research..MRI..now is a part of our dailey fight to save the sick.

[Azbo61]

08:43 PM on 12/30/2011

only giving out $1 bills....really nice of her....why didn't she give out $100 bills...

[rightfromwrong]

09:29 PM on 12/30/2011

average robbery only nets $2,000- $3,000. if she had ones in her stash, she didnt have much.

[rosasturtles1]

08:41 PM on 12/30/2011

why should she go to jail..it doesn't seem she was keeping the money...what a bad girl...

[RCDawg85]

06:07 AM on 01/01/2012

Not sure if serious or just trolling?

[rosasturtles1]

08:35 PM on 01/01/2012

just trolling..

[360Dunk]

08:34 PM on 12/30/2011

The lesson learned from this story is not to tell the cabbie about the bank you just robbed....that, and don't make it rain with the money you just stole. Whatever happened to smart bank robbers, who keep quiet and go about their business after a heist?

[stag001987]

08:40 PM on 12/30/2011

The smart bank robbers still exist. They're called "To big to fail CEO's".

[Rhyanna DeTuathana]

08:26 PM on 12/30/2011

Why did it take so long for her to get help? Maybe robbing that bank, was her final cry for help. As for giving the money to kids, her heart was in the right place, yet the money wasn't hers to give away.
I pray she gets the help needed, as well as other people seek help. There is NO SHAME IN ASKING FOR HELP, NOR ACCEPTING IT. Let's make this our 2012 Resolution, put pride aside and help someone just because they need it, or put pride aside and ask for help, there is no shame, no stigma in asking for help and in accepting help.
Happy Blessed New Years.

[viper1ex19]

07:32 PM on 12/30/2011

Hangin out at a park giving money to kids?

At least they didn't arrest her being a pervert.

[knice1]

06:42 PM on 12/30/2011

Banks rob from us every day. I don't see anything wrong with this.

[ibeyour1]

08:32 PM on 12/30/2011

she must be crazy giving money away. Just ask a republican.

[rosasturtles1]

08:40 PM on 12/30/2011

spot on radioowherre!..i agree with you totally..

[southboundcowboy]

07:06 PM on 12/30/2011

go stuff your mattress. LOL

[ae12wrangell]

06:10 PM on 12/30/2011

How come I didn't get any free money?

[drbracket]

07:51 PM on 12/30/2011

your last name isnt Koch