See Def. Mot. Police investigate a March 9 robbery inside the Fifth Third Bank at 1311 Ridgeland Ave. in Naperville. He said Sommer recruited two friends from Canada, both civilians, to participate in the heist. And it would be cutting his prison sentence by only seven weeks. "I think it was done because you are living far over your means.". A father and son were sentenced to prison this week for arranging to rob a Wheaton bank from the inside. Early filed a motion seeking a judicial recommendation under the Second Chance Act for a longer-than-usual placement in an RRC (what is sometimes called a "halfway house"), specifically nine months. In the most recent incident on Wednesday, the suspect walked into the Chase bank on Bank Street around 12:10 p.m. and handed a teller a . The four Houstonians were found 40 miles outside . His father was in state custody in New York, pending his transfer to Chicago, the FBI said. [8][9] It was documented as Biggest Bank Robbery under Curiosities and wonders in Limca Book of Records. Sommer had originally planned to rob Chips Casino in Lakewood, but only Byrne was old enough to enter the gambling establishment. A now-retired judge of this court sentenced him to a prison term of 160 months, a little over thirteen years. He admitted to investigators that he stored Sommers weapons and the explosive devices, but claimed he was neither privy to nor involved in the bank robbery. In 1984 he pled guilty to multiple charges of official misconduct for stealing money from the Clerk of the DuPage County Circuit Court and served about six months in custody, followed by probation. The Getaway Car, An alert bystander, who had been watching the drama unfold, copied down the Colorado license plate on the getaway car and reported it to police officers responding to the silent alarm. At the two-minute mark, the timekeeper shouted Lets go! The gang exited the bank with $54,011 stuffed into duffel bags, ran down a side street into an alley, jumped into a waiting automobile, and sped away. Kenneth Hopper, 58, was charged with Robbery and. It was terrifying to finally tell the truth, he . Early has now filed a motion seeking immediate release under section 603(b) of the First Step Act, which amended 18 U.S.C. Shown here with Chief Jailer of the Ramsey County jail. Man Sentenced in Army Rangers Bank Heist, Ibid., February 20, 2009, p. B-1; Mike Carter, Canadian Sentenced to 10 Years in Ranger bank robbery, Ibid., March 20, 2009, p. B1; Bank Robbery Press Releases, U.S. Attorneys Office, Western District of Washington website accessed March 2009 (www.usdoj.gov/usao/wa/press/bankrobbery.html); Robber Enters Plea on New Charges, The Seattle Times, September 28, 2009. p. B-4; Christine Clarridge, Murder Plot, Prison Attack May Mean 20 More Years, Ibid., January 5, 2010, p. B-8; Mike Carter, Bank-Robbing army Ranger Sentenced for Plotting to Kill Federal Prosecutor, Ibid., March 8, 2010, p. B-1. Early has not provided any information regarding the degree to which those in higher-risk categories are more likely to suffer serious illness if they contract the virus, and the Court is unaware of any reliable information along these lines. Early. They also found two rifles belonging to Sommer inside Olingers pickup truck. 09 CR 282 (N.D. Ill. May. This isn't Louis H. Early's first brush with the law in DuPage County. Sommers mother, Christel Davidson, claimed his disappearance took her entirely by surprise. 19, 2019 (dkt. March 24, 2007, p. B-1; David Bowermaster, Bank Robber fighting Extradition Disappears, Ibid,. Following his release from that prison term in 1997, Mr. He is hired to help the would be bank robbers stick up a local bank. With Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke, James Dukas. The first bank robbery in Denmark occurred August 18, 1913 in the bank Sparekassen for Kbenhavn og Omegn at sterbro in Copenhagen. The former deputy sheriff was indicted Aug. 5, 1984, on official misconduct and theft charges alleging he stole $5,000 in inmate bail money while working in the DuPage County jail under former Sheriff Richard Doria. Mr. On Friday, December 12, 2008, Judge Burgess sentenced Sommer to an agreed-upon 24 years in federal prison, plus five years of supervised release. On Tuesday, police captured a man suspected of serial bank robbery after a high-speed chase through the Quad-Cities. The 51-year-old New York man and his son, Louis S. Early, 26, of Lisle, are accused of making off with about $70,000 after sticking up two banks in March in Naperville and Wheaton. A 175-lb. A group of men in ski masks entered the building using a key that Pace had kept after he was fired. Both received lengthy prison terms. Dandre R. Brown, 30, of Godfrey, Illinois, pleaded guilty to a six-count federal indictment charging him with five counts of bank robbery and one count of transporting a stolen vehicle across state lines. Not too long after that, he returned to Illinois, where he committed the bank robberies that led to the sentence he is now serving. On Monday, August 14, Robertson was charged in U.S. District Court in Tacoma with armed bank robbery. Marshal Service pending sentencing. Weeks said they recovered a loaded .32-caliber revolver, $52,342 cash, federal reserve bank documents and a police scanner. Then early Wednesday morning he absconded from his mothers house in Peachland, B.C. December 13, 2008, p. B-2; Stacey Mulick, Second Ranger Gets 11 Years for Tacoma Takeover Robbery, Ibid,. Police Search For Man Behind 3 Bank Robberies In Brooklyn. Mr. Finally, on Wednesday, April 15, 2009, Judge Bryan sentenced Scott A. Byrne, who helped plan the bank heist but did not participate in the robbery, to eight months in federal prison plus three years of supervised release. Early if he contracts coronavirus, as reliable information places him in a higher-risk category. A search warrant was executed at the Lilac Avenue house late Thursday evening, and the defendants were arrested and taken into custody. The Court grants the motion for early release and reduces Mr. On Monday evening, he and other witnesses saw the men in the barracks with bundles of cash. Sarah Michelle Gellar nearly bared it all in a sheer black mesh bra that offered viewers plenty. 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He pled guilty to grand larceny in 1990 and was sentenced a short prison term, followed by probation, which was revoked later in 1990 when he was arrested after committing a series of bank robberies. Louis S. Early is free on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond. December 18, 2008, p. B-2; Canadian Man Sentenced to Prison for Role in Army Ranger Robbery, Ibid., February 21, 2009, p. B-2; Stacey Mulick, Last of Five Men Sentenced for Takeover-Style Bank Job, Ibid., March 20, 2009, p. B-2; David Bowermaster, Three Rangers Charged in Tacoma Bank Heist, The Seattle Times, August 11, 2006, p. B-1; David Bowermaster, Third robbery Suspect Caught, Ibid,. Like most big cities, St. Louis has a long criminal history filled with pickpockets, robbers, bootleggers, mobsters, and gangsters. Finally, in early May 2008, Sommer agreed to be extradited from Canada. September 23, 2006, p. B-2; Michael Gilbert, Ranger Pleads Guilty to Robbery, Ibid,. FBI officials said nearly $61,000 was stolen. During an interview on September 28, Scott Byrne told FBI agents that he helped Sommer plan the heist, but declined to take part in the operation. In 2005 he was charged with conspiracy to defraud the IRS in a case involving his preparation and filing, in 2002, of dozens of fraudulent tax returns in the name of fictitious companies, with refunds totaling over $130,000. Although armed bank robbery is not specifically listed in the Canadian Extradition Act, violent crimes are generally not considered political reasons for which the Canadian government would block extradition. "The elder Early then entered the bank on the pretext of opening a checking account. On the other hand, it appears that the vast majority of those who contract coronavirus do not suffer serious illness, and many remain entirely asymptomatic. Nine days later, a suspect matching the same description struck the Danada TCF branch bank, where Early Jr. was working. Dunmall suffered a minor stab wound and multiple cuts and bruises, but didnt require hospitalization. 's Emerg. Five soldiers and two Canadian citizens will be charged with involvement in the crime. So, especially if your an old St. Louis resident or just want to see how it looked with the old 50's cars, cheap gas, and a nostalgic hamburger fast food shop, I highly recommend you watch this movie: "The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery" Any comments or visitors you may e-mail me at: tpastorello@valornet.com no. The Court reduces Mr. In Count I, he was found guilty of killing Dan Kriegel in the course of committing the larceny and in Count III, he was found guilty of killing Dawn Kriegel in . Not too long after he was paroled in 1995, he was again charged in New York with grand larceny, this time for embezzling money from his employer. Byrne changed his mind, however, and on Friday, March 9, 2007, he pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge. Tupungato/Shutterstock In September. Alerted by the electronic monitoring device, the RCMP immediately issued a warrant for Sommers arrest and notified U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the FBI to be on the lookout for the fugitive. p.445. Theodore John Conrad showed up for work as a bank teller in Cleveland. He told investigators that Blum and Private First Class Chad W. Palmer, age 20, had been discussing doing a job and had been meeting privately with another Ranger, 20-year-old Specialist Fourth Class Luke Elliott Sommer. [24][25] Robbers disarmed the security guard and opened more than 400 safety deposit boxes. ISBN9788120204539. This early exposure to entrepreneurship made an impression; in 1903, Walker became the first African American woman to be president of a bank when she founded St. Luke Penny Savings Bank. Early that, as ordered in his previously-imposed conditions of supervised release, he must report to the Probation Office not less than 72 hours following his release. A disgraced former DuPage County deputy sheriff has returned to Illinois in shackles on a federal complaint alleging he and the son who bears his name were behind two suburban bank heists. of Def. A Police spokesman described it as "a neat and clean operation". In October 2018, Mr. Jaylan D. Quinn, 22, has been charged with armed bank robbery resulting in death, and Andrew R. Brinkley, 19, has been charged with bank robbery, according to a press release from the. Authorities later verified the hotel room and car were obtained in the younger man's name, the federal complaint said. Moreover, as this Court and others have noted previously, when a defendant is soon to be released from, He also faces three years of supervised release. He was scheduled for an extradition hearing on July 10, but lost confidence in his altruistic crusade against war crimes. On August 7, 2006, four men brandishing weapons rob the Bank of America branch in South Tacoma of $54,011. Documentary Chicago family son Father Crime FBI robbery bank heist Federal Bureau of Investigations vice_videos:premiere Louis Early TWEET More from HOW TO ROB A BANK HOW TO ROB A BANK 44:33 Any feedback, comments, or extra information are much . He told the undercover officer he didnt care how the prosecutor was killed, but he wanted news reports to reflect Dions death was murder, not just an accident. On Tuesday morning, August 8, FBI agents found the vehicle sitting inside a fenced parking lot at the Ranger compound and immediately had it impounded as evidence. black bear dead near a duffle bag and some $2 million worth of cocaine that had been opened and scattered over a hillside. But that is not the case. His allegations of war crimes were referred to the U.S. Department of Justice by the Canadian authorities. Gordon "Butch" Earley, Jr. appeals his conviction of bank larceny of the Grinnell State Bank in violation of 18 U.S.C. At the end of his shift, the then 20-year-old stole $215,000, stuffed it into a paper bag -- and vanished, authorities said. Early's sentence. Bank manager Louis Early Jr reunites with his long-lost father, a career criminal, and he becomes the inside man in a series of daring family-run heists. In March 2004, Mr. During the nineteenth century, travelers on steam locomotives were at risk for train robberies. 8. See, e.g., United States v. Reyes, No. August 11, 2006, p. B-2; Paul Sand, Third Fort Lewis Soldier arrested in Bank Robbery Case, Ibid,. The Sikh unrest and the Indian state: politics, personalities, and historical retrospective. Mr. Mr. 3 min read. For violating his home-confinement agreement, Sommer was remanded to custody pending the outcome of future extradition proceedings in British Columbia Supreme Court. Each. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the conviction today. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing May 1 during his first federal court appearance. The gangs leader wielded a 9-mm Glock 19 with a red laser sight, which he pointed threateningly at the employees. Tim O'Neil also wrote a great pictorial article on the robbery in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on July 25, 2012.. Fortunately, Blums roommate had not left the Ranger compound and was able to shed some light on the robbers. But he claimed that his purpose was to expose atrocities committed by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. November 30, 2006, p. A-1; David Bowermaster, Rangers Defense: If I Did It, It Was Political, Ibid,. Hamilton attended the liberation at Lima Jail but did not enter the building, instead serving as a lookout. In 1959, Charles Guggenheim shot a film noir about the robbery and actually filmed it in St. Louis using locations such at the bank, Tower Grove Park and the old South City Famous-Barr store . SEATTLE (AP) _ A serial bank robber dubbed ``The Shootist has been sentenced to 92 years in prison and ordered to pay back the loot: nearly $900,000. Palmer was the first defendant to accept a plea bargain, which included an agreement to be a prosecution witness. Based on current monetary standards, the Manhattan bank heist amounts to approximately $65 million today, far surpassing any previous robberies. Whitney L. Williams Jr. about 4:50 p.m. entered the TD Bank at 2417 Park. It is difficult to imagine how a reduction this modest would disregard the seriousness of his crimeswhich were indeed quite seriousor undercut the need to provide just punishment, respect for the law, or adequate deterrence. It was a disaster from the start. -----. In the second heist, in Wheaton, Louis H. Early said his son helped plan the inside job and provided him with a rented 2009 Chevy Malibu used to flee. Mr. The elder Early was arrested Sunday by the Cayuga County (N.Y.) sheriff's office on unrelated state charges, according to the FBI, who also said his son was arrested Wednesday morning at his home. The senior EARLY was arrested on March 21, 2009 by Officers of the Cayuga County, New York Sheriffs Office (CCSO) on unrelated state charges. In furtherance of his plan, on two occasions in March 2009, Sommer offered an undercover FBI task force officer $20,000 to kill Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Dion, who prosecuted the bank robbery case. In 1930 . Couldn't they just go fishing? In 1989, Mr. Oklawaha, FL. Early's history and characteristics; the nature and circumstances of the crimes; due consideration of the seriousness of the crimes; promoting respect for the law; providing just punishment; affording adequate deterrence; protecting the public from further crimes by Mr. On Tuesday night, June 27, 2007, Sommer celebrated his 21st birthday with family and friends. The following morning, FBI agents will find the getaway car parked inside a fenced compound at Fort Lewis, and will quickly identify the soldiers involved in the bank robbery. The public is reminded that a complaint is not evidence of guilt and that all defendants in a criminal case are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law. 2113(a) & (e). Courthouse before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sidney I. Schenkier. According to the complaint, FBI Agents in Chicago and Officers of the NPD were investigating the March 9th robbery of the Fifth Third Bank branch, located at 1311 Ridgeland in Naperville, when the same unidentified individual was believed to have struck again, robbing the TCF Bank branch in Wheaton. He was sentenced to a federal prison term of 33 months, at least part of which seems to have been served concurrently with his state bank robbery sentence. He said a press release from the Cape. This movie is an authentic recreation of the '53 robbery, except the vehicles are late 50s. And although he has significant health conditions, there is nothing to suggest that he is so frail to preclude further recidivism. The Free Encyclopedia of Washington State History. With Curtis Starner, Bobby Chacon, Mikaela Gilden, Jon Gormley. The junior Early was arrested yesterday morning at his residence, without incident, by FBI Special Agents. The suspects were identified last night as Louis Hill, 25, of the 300 block of Stevenson Lane, Towson, and Benjamin Franklin Boisseau Jr., 23, of the 3100 block of Clifton Ave., Baltimore. In 1997, a Dunbar Armored Co. employee was fired for tampering with the company's vehicles. The Clerk is directed to send a copy of this order, as well as the amended judgment, to the Probation Office of this district. When Sommer failed to return to his unit at Fort Lewis at the end of August, the Army declared him Absent Without Leave (AWOL) and dropped him from the battalions payroll. An FBI agent told him that there had been a bank robbery an hour earlier. There were NO interstates then. K-9 officer Dan Pleckham, Jr. and his four-legged partner, Bandit, both of the Yorkville Police Department, emerge from Fifth Third Bank March 9 in Naperville as police investigate a stickup. Perhaps more significantly, the Bureau of Prisons directed that Mr. In 1987, he pled guilty to stealing two automobiles from a dealership where he worked as a salesman and was given a prison sentence concurrent to his felony theft sentence. Sheriff's Lt. Joseph J. "While it is unusual to have a father-son team rob a bank, it certainly isn't the first time it's happened," said Ross Rice, an FBI spokesman. The complaint alleges that the junior EARLY acted as a get-away driver for his father in the Naperville robbery and helped with the planning of the Wheaton robbery, selecting both a date and time when the son, who was an Assistant Branch Manager, would be on duty. 3, 2020) (Leinenweber, J.). 04 CR 970, 2020 WL 1663129, at *2 (N.D. Ill. Apr. The FBI alleges the man in the photo is Louis H. Early. Alex M. Blum, the Ranger who drove the getaway car, appeared before Judge Burgess on Friday, March 13, 2009, and was sentenced to 16 months in federal prison plus five years of supervised release. Subsequent investigation by the FBI and CCSO developed additional evidence linking both men to the two robberies and resulting in the charges announced today. 8 million stolen, 500,000 recovered. The Clay County Savings Association robbery in 1866 was never officially solved On February 13, 1866, a Tuesday, a group of riders rode into Liberty, Missouri. Mr. Early had a heart attack at some point when he was in custody at the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center. Early's presentence report reflects, it is fair to say, one of the worst histories of recidivism that this Court has seen in eighteen years as a lawyer and just over twenty as a judge. The next question is whether a reduction "is consistent with applicable policy statements issued by the Sentencing Commission." A father and son were arrested in connection with two west suburban bank robberies, in which authorities said they made off with a total of nearly $70,000, the FBI said this afternoon in a news release. An image of the March 9 robbery of the Fifth Third Bank at 1311 Ridgeland Ave. in Naperville. It looked very suspicious, like it could be proceeds of a bank robbery, so we called the FBI and got a search warrant.". On January 23, at the Seatac Federal Detention Center, Sommer, believing thatDunmall had informed the FBI about his plan to murder a federal prosecutor, attacked him with an improvised knife made from a part of a stair-step exercise machine. C. And although Mr. May 24, 2008, p. B-2; Adam Lynn, Leader of Bank Robbery Gang Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Sentence, Ibid,. 51 of the St. Louis, Iron . Were the Court to reduce Mr. On Tuesday afternoon, FBI agents executed federal search warrants on the quarters occupied by Sommer, Palmer, and Blum in Building 3475. John Zaruba, who later was elected sheriff after Doria retired. 924 (c) (1) (A). EDITORS NOTE: Copies of the criminal complaint filed in this case are available from the Chicago FBIs press office at (312) 829-1199. But that's just the most recent episode; it disregards the rest of his history. He pleaded not guilty before District Court Judge Franklin D. Burgess (1935-2010) and was released on bond. Memphis, TN - After a four-day federal jury trial, Antonio Johnson 44, Travis Jackson 37, and Shalundra Johnson, 39 have been found guilty of kidnapping and multiple bank robberies. The release also stated: "After being taken into custody, [Cayuga County] sheriff's investigators discovered evidence linking the senior Early to the Wheaton robbery. Early resigned that Sept. 10, days after being suspended, during an internal investigation led by then-Sgt. Manhattan Savings Institution, 1878, $2.5 million ($70.2million in 2021) including $12,000 in cash, with the rest in securities. In both. The case eluded officials for decades, until an obituary appeared online and family secrets began to unravel. Under the terms of his plea bargain, Sommer agreed to plead guilty to four felony counts and a sentence of 24 years in federal prison. A gang's plans for a St. Louis bank robbery are complicated when the sister of one of the thieves starts voicing her well-founded suspicions. All the defendants agreed to testify against Sommer at trial. The younger Early later called his father while he was driving to New York 'and asked, "Did you order a pizza?" March 13, 2007, p. B2; Ex-Ranger Suspected in Robbery Back in U.S., Ibid,. Investigators had the fugitives picture and physical description from his arrest in August 2006, and were astonished to find he altered his appearance by gaining some 90 pounds. The policy statements issued by the Sentencing Commission even before the passage of the First Step Act included an open-ended provision broad enough to cover the circumstances argued by Mr. These conditions place Mr. Click here to sign up for the In 1793, Scotsman Patrick Lyon arrived off the boat in Philadelphia, looking to seek his fortune and play his part in the American Dream. Not that many people in their sixties commit crimes, but the same is true of people in their fifties, and Mr. At the time, Early was in the midst of a divorce. August 13, 2006, p. B-1; Joe Mullin, Fourth Suspect Held in Robbery, Ibid,. If the police had shown up during the robbery, there would have been a blood-bath on the streets of Tacoma. During the hearing, defense attorney Krupa told Judge Burgess that Sommer was mentally ill and had been recently diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. He then fled. Newsletter, Paddock Publications, Inc. is an Employee-Owned Company. He confessed to being one of the guards wielding an AK-47 assault rifle and provided detailed information about the operation. His assistant collected the money from the teller stations and took $20,000 from a money cart inside the vault. His parole was revoked, and he ultimately pled guilty and was given another prison term. His son was sentenced on Thursday to two years in prison, three years of supervised release, and $52,500 restitution to the TCF bank. Early's criminal history and the need to protect the public from further crimes by him. A former DuPage County deputy sheriff was sentenced to 13 years and four months in federal prison Wednesday for a pair of 2009 bank robberies in Wheaton and Naperville. It was done in need," Zaruba is quoted in old court records while trying to get Early to confess. The following Friday, March 20, Nathan R. Dunmall, a Canadian citizen from Chilliwack, B.C who wielded a fully automatic AK-47 inside the bank, appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Bryan and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison plus five years of supervised release. This page was last edited on 21 February 2023, at 04:14. A father and son were arrested in connection with two west suburban bank robberies, in which authorities said they made off with a total of nearly $70,000, the FBI said this afternoon in a news. He was given a sentence of two to four years for the bank robberies. And on Monday, March 12, Tigra Robertson pleaded guilty before Judge Burgess to the same charges. His parole was revoked a second time when he was arrested in 1999 for grand larceny after stealing $5,600 that his employer had entrusted to him to pay distributors of the employer's product. The banks lost about $482 million due to robberies, or $4,213 per offense. Witnesses reported an armed white or Hispanic man robbed the First Savings Bank at 7048 Kennedy Ave. a little after 10 a.m., according to police. A crime scene technician checks for fingerprints March 9 inside the front door of the Fifth Third Bank at 1311 Ridgeland Ave. in Naperville. But there is more. December 9, 2006, p. B-2; Adam Lynn, Ex-Ranger Pleads Guilty in Robbery, Ibid,. Please. Naperville Luke Sommer's Case. He was released on a $25,000 surety bond, with the promise to return to the United States for further court proceedings. The third bank robber to be sentenced was Tigra J. On Monday, March 8, Judge Robart accepted Sommers guilty plea and sentenced him to an additional 20 years in prison and a $25,000 fine. 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