When Roberta Alborg looked at a surveillance photo of a bank heist, the robber looked very familiar. It was her son!
She was so appalled by his crime that she immediately turned him in to police. “She’s a remarkably honest woman,” Detective Donald Gmitter of the Uniontown, Pa., Police Dept. told The ENQUIRER.
James D. Alborg, 41, robbed three banks. At the time of the heists, Alborg was living with his mother in Republic, Pa. “He told her he’d won the money playing the lottery,” said state trooper James Garlick.
After the third robbery, cops released a bank surveillance photo to a local newspaper, which his mom saw.
“She contacted us and told us she thought it was her son,” said Garlick. “She positively identified him as her son.
“She knew he had a gun and was afraid for his safety. Either somebody was going to hurt him – or he was going to harm somebody with the weapon.
“I’m sure it was a very difficult thing for her. She must have been torn.”
When cops told him his mom had turned him in, “I was expecting him to be mad,” said Garlick, “but he wasn’t. You can’t get a better person to ID somebody than his own mother!”
Alborg apologized for the robberies, pleaded guilty, and in September he was sentenced to nine to 30 years in prison.
