{"id":262076,"date":"2026-05-07T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262076\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:43:09","slug":"former-corrections-officer-arrested-in-florida-bank-robbery-police-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262076\/","title":{"rendered":"Former corrections officer arrested in Florida bank robbery, police say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former corrections officer is back behind bars on the wrong side of the law after authorities said she robbed a bank in Florida last year.<\/p>\n

Mary Jane Adolphus, 47, was arrested in the robbery that happened June 6, 2025, at a PNC Bank in Port St. Lucie, Police Chief Chief Leo Niemczyk said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Niemczyk said Adolphus displayed what appeared to be a firearm and fled with around $2,000.<\/p>\n

After the robbery, detectives were inundated with tips about multiple suspects but narrowed it down to Adolphus with the help of the FBI, Niemczyk said.<\/p>\n

“It appears the motivation was rent, at the end of the day, she needed money to pay rent,” Niemczyk told reporters at a news conference.<\/p>\n

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Image from the robbery of a PNC Bank in Port St. Lucie on June 6, 2025.<\/p>\n

Investigators learned Adolphus may have been trying to flee the country and she was taken into custody at Miami International Airport, the chief said.<\/p>\n

She was brought back to Port St. Lucie to face charges of robbery with a firearm and grand theft.<\/p>\n

Niemczyk said investigators recovered a BB gun that was used in the robbery and obtained a confession from Adolphus.<\/p>\n

He added that Adolphus was a state corrections officer for about five years but her tenure ended in 2023.<\/p>\n

“It’s a crime with extremely high risk and low reward, typically they get out with less than a few thousand dollars, and rapidly caught usually within a couple of months,” Niemczyk said. “This one took a little bit longer because we had so many people presented to us as suspects and she was difficult to catch up with but it’s just a very foolish crime to commit.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former corrections officer is back behind bars on the wrong side of the law after authorities said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-262076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}