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Sam Penrod ReportingA woman robbed at an Orem Check Cashing store over the weekend is now speaking out about what happened. The victim has been in California on a vacation since the day after it happened. This morning on the Today Show, Cy and Angie Hirsche spoke to Katie Couric about their terrifying experience.
By now you've probably seen the dramatic video from the store's camera, which caught the entire three-minute ordeal. This morning on Today, Angie Hirsche described what happened.
Angie Hirsche, Robbery Victim: "He immediately said, 'Where's the money?' And I thought, 'Okay, I need to do everything I possibly can from this point on to give him what he wants.' And he drug me over to the safe and I opened the safe and gave him the money. He said, 'I want more,' and I said, 'You can have myring, my purse, my car, take whatever you want."
The suspect tried to take Angie into the bathroom and tie her up with duct tape, but she resisted.
Angie Hirsche, Robbery Victim: "I had watched Oprah once and she had said, 'Don't ever let them take you to a second location,' and I thought, 'If he is going to take me to the bathroom, he's going to have to do it with me unconscious.' And I convinced him there were people down the hall in the back and if he took me down there he'd get caught. And I knew everyone has a mom, everybody loves moms and if I told him I was a mom and I have children that needed me, I thought that might have some bearing on him emotionally and he might be a little nicer to me."
In the middle of the robbery, the store's phone rang. The robber knocked it off the table, so the person on the other end, who happened to be Angie's husband Cy, could hear it all.
Cy Hirsche, Victim's Husband: "As a husband that wants to protect their family, it's the worst thing in the world to know there is nothing you can do."
Angie Hirsche: "I had no idea my husband was on the line and he could hear me scream and reason with him."
The robber was quickly arrested because Angie remembered him being in the store just a few days before as a customer. She had his address and gave it to police who caught him with the disguise, fake gun and also the stolen money. He is in jail on charges of aggravated robbery.
