The 19-year-old high school dropout allegedly knocked off a bank in Nebraska, then posted a YouTube video bragging about it.
“Kind of a strange deal isn’t it?” York County Sherriff Dale Radcliff tells PEOPLE.
In her eight-minute video, Sabata doesn’t utter a word. Instead, she scribbles handwritten signs detailing her alleged armed robbery of the Cornerstone Bank in Waco, Neb., on Nov. 28, using “a gun, a pillow case, and a note.”
During the course of her video, she also describes how she stole a “shiny new” Pontiac Grand Am, which she used as a getaway car after making off with $6,256 in cash.
“I told my mom today was the best day of my life,” she writes in the video, while waving hundred-dollar bills in front of the camera. “She just thinks I met a new boy . . . I’m going for a shopping spree. Bite me.”
According to police, Sabata is wearing the same clothes she wore when she allegedly handed bank tellers a slip of paper that read: “You are being robbed! NO ALARMS OR LOCKS OR PHONES or INK BAGS! I have a loaded gun. You have 2 minutes.”
Sherriff Radcliff notes that law enforcement officials didn’t even know about Sabata’s video until after her arrest on Nov. 29.
Photographs of the robber, captured by the bank’s security cameras, were quickly distributed throughout the community.
“We had lots of leads, but when her ex-husband notified us and said ‘That’s my ex-wife,’ we got an arrest warrant for her,” he said.
Sabata is currently being held in a York County jail on $300,000 bond. According to Radcliff, she faces up to 70 years in prison if convicted of armed robbery and auto theft.
