By Town Crier Staff

Los Altos police apprehended a Vallejo woman unable to locate her getaway driver in the North Parking Plaza during a bank robbery Thursday afternoon.

Police said Monica Ross, 43, allegedly tried to withdraw money from someone else’s account at Wells Fargo bank in downtown Los Altos at 4:25 p.m. using checks and other pieces of identity stolen from a purse in Hayward the previous day.

An alert teller called police and stalled the woman after she recognized the account number on the stolen documents as those bank officials had red-flagged.

Ross exited the bank at the same time police were entering. When Ross spotted the police, she took off her shoes and sprinted across the parking lot, police said.

She jumped on top of a parked car in an attempt to locate her driver, who was no where in sight. Police caught Ross about 100 yards away from the bank exit.

She was arrested on charges of forgery, burglary, resisting arrest and identity theft.