Popular New York librarian, aged 56, arrested for bank robbery

• A librarian has been arrested on the charge of robbing a bank.
• Mary Thompson, 56, gave a teller a note which said: "Give me $100,000 I have a gun."
• She left with $7,000 and was arrested "without further incident."

A librarian has been arrested on the charge of robbing a New York bank.

Mary Thompson, 56, has been charged with first-degree robbery after walking into the Chase Bank one block from New Rochelle Public Library and demanding $100,000 at around 9.45 A.M. on May 20.

She gave the bank teller a note which read "Give me $100,000 I have a gun," and left with $7,000, the police report says.

Thompson, who is thought to have been in the role of acting children's department head librarian since 2018, was arrested outside the bank "without further incident."

In 2017, public records state that Thompson's salary at the library was $76,462.

"Mary Thompson is an employee of our library," Thomas Geoffino, director of the New Rochelle Public Library, said in a statement sent to NBC News. "She is much beloved by her colleagues and library patrons. We have no further comment at this time."

Thompson did not immediately respond to Insider's request for further comment.