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"I did it and I'm sorry I did it," Williams, a 44-year-old married mother of two said to Judge Stephen Baratta. "I'm just hoping that once you understand all the facts surrounding [it] that you'll understand why." Dressed in a clown suit, red nose, wig, leggings and a white scarf, Williams robbed the KNBT branch in Bethlehem Township last summer, claiming she was forced to because of a kidnapper who still had her children.
On Aug. 6, Williams told tellers she had a bomb and ordered them to fill her backpack with large bills. She was arrested shortly after the heist as she smoked a cigarette about a mile away in her car at the township's park complex. She told officers there was a bomb in the vehicle and again offered a story of coercion, saying "at least three men" had kidnapped her earlier and that her kids were still in danger.
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It took police and officials with the FBI and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms several hours to determine the bomb was a fake. Inside the car, police recovered the clown costume, two loaded handguns, a large amount of money and the phony explosive, which was fashioned from a can of soup and bagged rice. Assistant District Attorney Patricia Mulqueen said she will seek the maximum prison term of 20 years.
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