A woman with a wooden stick in her hand tried to rob a San Pedro bank Monday morning but was quickly arrested, police said. 
 
 The woman walked into the Bank of America branch at Ninth Street and Pacific Avenue about 9 a.m. She had the stick in her hand and handed a note demanding cash to a teller. She also claimed to have a gun. 
 
 The teller did not give her anything, so she walked away. A security guard followed her, giving police her location. Officers arrived and took her into custody, police said. 
 
 The woman’s name was not immediately released. 

 A woman armed with a stick attempted to rob a bank in San Pedro Monday morning, police said.The incident was reported at a Bank of America near W. 9th Street and S. Pacific Avenue at about 9 a.m.The female suspect, who claimed to have a gun, threatened customers and employees inside the bank. It was unclear if she fled the scene with money.Witnesses followed the suspect and alerted police, who then took her into custody a few blocks away.
– In what's surely the saddest bank-robbery attempt of 2016 so far, cops say a California woman tried to rob a bank, and it may have been her intimidating weapon-of-choice that caused her criminal endeavors to crash and burn. Per the Daily Breeze, the woman allegedly walked into a Bank of America in San Pedro Monday morning, sauntered up to a teller, and handed over a note demanding cash. Police report she claimed to have a gun in her pocket, and in one hand she wielded … a stick. The Breeze says the teller didn't give her anything, and KABC notes she fled the scene and was nabbed by cops a few blocks away thanks to some witnesses who followed her. (Not quite a spaghetti-sauce bomb, though.)