By Vicky Wedig
SLN Staff
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 24 for a Waterford woman charged with helping her boyfriend rob a bank in East Troy to pay her drug dealers.
Azure S. Murray, 29, was charged July 31 in Walworth County Circuit Court with robbery of a financial institution as a party to a crime.
According to the criminal complaint, Murray is suspected of driving with her boyfriend, Michael K. Brown, 36, of Waukesha, to Associated Bank in the Village of East Troy at about 2:20 p.m. June 19. Brown is believed to have gone inside the bank with his hand over his face, threw a bag on the counter and demanded that the teller “fill it up,” according to the complaint.
The teller said she filled the bag with money then the man, suspected to be Brown, told her and another teller to go into the bathroom and wait for five minutes before coming out, according to the complaint.
Brown allegedly left the bank and got into his car, which Murray drove away from the scene.
When Brown was apprehended, he told police Murray is a heroin user and had accumulated debt with her drug dealers, according to the complaint. He said they were afraid the dealers would shoot her or their residence, and used the money stolen from the bank to pay the drug dealers, according to the complaint.
