Woman surrenders 6 years after $500,000 theft

KOKOMO -- A woman suspected of stealing nearly $500,000 while servicing bank machines before disappearing six years ago walked into a police station and surrendered, with a detective saying she had tired of life as a fugitive.\nAuthorities had been searching for Cynthia Wismiller since November 2000, when they said she took $286,000 from ATMs in the Kokomo area, along with $200,000 from her employer, Armored Services Inc. of South Bend.\nThe search for Wismiller took a turn after investigators subpoenaed the telephone records of her son and daughter and found calls last month to a home in the Florida panhandle town of Ponce de Leon, where she had been living under an assumed name, city police Detective Mike Banush said.\nA neighbor identified Wismiller from photographs, but officers could not find her in Florida, he said. Then Wismiller arrived at the police station in the city, about 40 miles north of Indianapolis, on Monday.\n"I was floored; I was shocked," Banush said of Wismiller's surrender. "She said, 'My neighbor told me that you guys knew I was there.' So she said, 'I'm tired of running, so I came to turn myself in.'"\nWismiller was being held in the Howard County jail on an arrest warrant charging her with felony counts of burglary and theft. She also was wanted on a federal warrant charging her with unlawful flight.