ALLEGHENY COUNTY — A Knoch High School graduate, who now is a resident of Allegheny County, is headed to court for allegedly trying to rob a bank of $40,000 after claiming to have a bomb.

Brandy Greulich, who graduated in 2000, is a 33-year-old single mother living in Brighton Heights. Police say Greulich last month pulled up to a PNC Bank drive-through teller in Bellevue and handed the teller a note claiming she had a bomb in the car and was forced to rob the bank by others who were supposedly watching.

Authorities say the bomb threat was a hoax.

On Thursday at a preliminary hearing, she urged people thinking of “doing anything like this” to consider “better alternatives.”

She apologized for the incident and called it “embarrassing” and a “waste of everybody’s time and money.”

Greulich waived her hearing before a district court judge and her case was sent to criminal court for trial.

She is charged with bomb threats, robbery, recklessly endangering another person, fraud and possession of drug paraphernalia.