On Saturday 3 May 2025, at about 9:30 in the morning, a woman in a hat, hoodie, sunglasses, a surgical mask and a single latex glove walked into the TD Bank at 2437 SE 17th Street in Ocala, Florida, and handed the teller a note. The note demanded at least fifty thousand dollars in big bills, said she had a gun and would use it if she had to, and told the teller to wait two minutes before calling the police. The teller emptied the drawer into her purse. It came to $5,075, about a tenth of what the note asked for. And on the way in, the teller slipped a GPS tracker in with the cash. Eleven minutes later, Ocala Police stopped a black Chevrolet Camaro on Southwest College Road. The body camera clock reads 09:43:03. Inside the car were the money, the tracker, the clothing and the medical glove. The woman in the car was Christina Gates Thagard, 40, and she had been a Marion County Sheriff's Office deputy. On camera she tells the officers she did fourteen years, from 2003 to 2016. What follows is the interview at Ocala Police CID, and it is the whole case in one room. She says two people borrowed her Camaro and must have left everything in it. The detective goes through the evidence one piece at a time: the tracker log that shows the car never stopped between the bank and the traffic stop, the bank's own still of a hand with the same two missing fingernails, and finally her fingerprint on the note itself. "It must have been a glitch." "It's not a glitch." "I have paper because I'm a crafter." "The note that you handed to the bank teller with your hand that didn't have the glove on has your fingerprint on it." WHAT HAPPENED NEXT Christina Gates Thagard was indicted in federal court on 29 May 2025 on one count of bank robbery, which carries a maximum of twenty years. She pleaded guilty on 4 December 2025. On 30 January 2026 she was sentenced to two years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, with conditions including employment, drug testing, a mental health evaluation, and no contact with the victim. Her fingerprints matched the demand note and a door inside the bank. Source: Ocala Police Department, released to the public. Investigated by the Ocala Police Department and the FBI. Prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida. Business Email: Bodycamjusticeyta@gmail.com

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