Suspect captured in Pueblo bank robbery

There was a bank robbery at a Pueblo bank on Thursday morning. Police were able to apprehend the suspect using a tracking device.

The robbery happened at the Sunflower Bank at 1750 S. Pueblo Blvd. Police say Cynthia Hanson entered the bank and handed a teller a threatening note. She left the bank with a money bag, but there was something else in that bag, which helped authorities locate her.

“There’s a tracking device in the money pack that was placed with the money that was given to the suspect,” Pueblo Police Officer Randy Pixler said. “And GPS coordinates, they were able to track her and give us a location as to where she was at all times.”

Police found Hanson just eight minutes later at Royal Crest and Lehigh. She was knocking on the door of a fourplex. A woman opened the door but didn’t know her. Officer Pixler said he found the stolen money nearby.

“I saw there was a bag stuffed under a white car there and it looked like a
Parkview Medical bag, something that somebody would get released with, with
their belongings and that’s where all the money and the note and a change of
clothes were found,” he said.

Hanson is now at the Pueblo County Jail facing robbery charges. The money she took was returned to the bank.