FONTANA -- A 50-year-old woman dubbed the "Granny Bandit" pleaded not guilty today to four counts of robbery.
Dodi Wasbotten of Fontana entered the pleas during a brief arraignment in Fontana Superior Court, according to a court staff member.
Wasbotten is accused of committing four armed robberies over four days last week in store parking lots in Fontana.
During her arraignment a judge appointed the San Bernardino County Public Defender's Office to represent her.
She remains remains jailed in lieu of $500,000 at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, and she is next due in court May 24, the staff member said.
Fontana police named Wasbotten the "Granny Bandit" because her alleged victims' descriptions of her.
During the robberies Wasbotten wore a scarf wrapped on her head like a bonnet and stole shoppers' purses after threatening them with a handgun that may have been fake, police said.
Wasbotten's first alleged robbery was at 11:30 a.m. on May 8, when she allegedly robbed a shopper leaving a Kohl's store at 14960 Summit Ave.
At 8 p.m. the next day she allegedly robbed a shopper in the parking lot of Target at 16964 Slover Ave.
On May 10 at about 11 a.m. she tried to take a woman's purse in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart at 17251 Foothill Blvd.
Her final alleged armed robbery occurred May 11 at 9:45 a.m. outside a Target store at 15272 Summit Ave.
She was arrested about three hours after the final robbery when a Fontana crime analyst on her lunch break saw Wasbotten's car and recognized it from vehicle descriptions provided by robbery victims.
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