DALLAS - A Texas woman was arrested on Wednesday after a pink dye pack attached to money she is suspected of stealing from a bank exploded when she took the cash to a different bank to open a new account, police said.
Fort Worth police said Sharon Luck, 43, was arrested on suspicion of robbing a bank in the city early on Wednesday, after a woman gave a bank teller a threatening note and walked out with cash to which the dye pack had been attached.
Police would not say how much money was stolen or divulge the contents of the note.
Luck is suspected of taking the money to a bank in Burleson, about 20 miles away. Police said she was apparently going to deposit the stolen cash when things went awry.
"When she opened her purse, the dye pack detonated," said Lt. Abdul Pridgen, a Fort Worth police spokesman.
Luck fled the bank and was arrested in the parking lot of a nearby store.
Police said she was easy to find because she was covered in pink dye.
