The bandits intended to rob a credit union at gunpoint, then make their escape in inner tubes waiting nearby.
But an informant sold them down the river, and police torpedoed the bizarre robbery/getaway plot.
Federal court documents allege that Patrick Jay Burr, 46, and Heather Giles Burr, 33, were planning to pull a heist at the Utah Community Credit Union in Provo last Friday.
They were arrested Thursday after their purported partner in crime - who actually was a confidential informant - alerted authorities of the alleged plot, in which the would-be bandits would rob the bank then float away down the nearby Provo River in inner tubes.
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