For the third time in five months, gun-toting masked criminals have invaded the homes of credit union employees, kidnapped them and forced them to rob their own cooperatives.
The latest incident occurred on June 8 in Memphis, Tenn., at 6:20 a.m. when two black males wearing rubber masks, wigs and dark or camouflaged clothing kidnapped an FAA Federal Credit Union employee from her home and forced her to help them rob it, according to FBI investigators in Memphis.
In April, a credit union CEO and his family were kidnapped from their home in a failed attempt to extort cash from the credit union's Oak Ridge, Tenn. And in February, a credit union CFO claimed two men disguised in dark clothing wearing ski masks and goggles, invaded his suburban Connecticut home, strapped a bomb to his chest, and forced him to drive to a credit union branch to steal $1 million.
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