Police Arrest Woman After Attempted Bank Robbery

Police arrested a Menlo Park woman Wednesday after she reportedly threatened to hold up the Chase Bank in Towne Center with a bomb.

Jacqueline Casalou, 50, was apprehended shortly after bank employees alerted police. She is in custody on suspicion of robbery, police said.

Officers responded to a report of a robbery in progress at the bank, located at 1200 El Camino Real, at about 10:41 a.m. Bank employees told officers that Casalou was demanding cash and claiming to have explosives, police said.

According to police, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office was called to the bank and sent in a bomb-sniffing dog. After a search, however, no explosives were found, police said.

The case has been assigned to investigators. Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call the San Bruno Police Department at 650-616-7100.