An Elkhorn man is serving four years in prison for the January 2015 robbery of Fort Community Credit Union in Whitewater.
Kaia Mueller, 39, pleaded guilty March 30 to robbery of a financial institution and was sentenced June 2 to four years in state prison and four years extended supervision.
Mueller robbed Fort Community Credit Union on East Milwaukee Street on Jan. 21, 2015, and ran east from the bank, according to the criminal complaint. On surveillance video, police saw a white man, later identified as Mueller, enter the credit union through the main doors, approach the teller and place a black bag and clipboard on the counter. The teller placed cash, which the credit union president said was about $3,200, into the bag, according to the complaint.
Police lifted shoe impressions from the snow northeast of the credit union, and examined a tire track a neighbor of the credit union reported next to her driveway.
Video surveillance from a residence and other locations captured a dark gray truck on the streets around the credit union and parked in the space where the tire track was found around the time of the robbery, according to the complaint. Police released information about the truck to the public, and Cody Boyd reported the truck belongs to his uncle’s business, MJB Services, and the man driving it works for his uncle.
Police met with Michael Boyd who confirmed he owned the truck, and Mueller, who worked for him, is the only person who had used the truck on or since Jan. 21, 2015, according to the complaint.
Police searched Mueller’s home where they found notes alluding to Mueller’s financial problems and spoke to Mueller’s wife, who said Mueller admitted robbing a bank and said he had obtained about $2,000 by using a “fake weapon” he had made, according to the complaint. Mueller’s wife said Mueller has a gambling problem and she believes he lost the money gambling at a casino.
Mueller is a repeater having been convicted of a felony drug offense in Hawaii in 2006.
