March 10, 2007, p. B-1; Adam Lynn, Canadian Man Changes Plea, Opts for Trial in Armed Robbery Case, Ibid,. A 175-lb. Early's prison sentence to time served and directs the Clerk to prepare an amended judgment and commitment order (J&C) accordingly. Weeks said Cayuga County deputies seized a .32-caliber handgun and $52,342 in cash at the time Early was arrested. His allegations of war crimes were referred to the U.S. Department of Justice by the Canadian authorities. 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. Olinger was charged in U.S. District Court in Tacoma on Friday, September 22, 2006, and pleaded guilty to possessing unregistered destructive devices. Early's record would find it quite likely that he will commit additional crimes once he is released. The other, Billie Allen, 19, was arrested early Tuesday at a house in south St. Louis. Early has spent nearly all of his time serving jail or prison sentences and finding ways to get back into jail or prison. 04 CR 970, 2020 WL 1663129, at *2 (N.D. Ill. Apr. Southern New Hampshire University About I have years of experience. His son was on duty as an assistant branch manager during the second stickup, March 18, at TCF Bank in Wheaton's Danada Square shopping center. Early's sentence to time served, it would be cutting his overall sentence by a little over nine months, meaning that he would serve 133 months in custody as compared with 142. 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. Sommer was ordered held without bond and booked into the Seatac Federal Detention Center to await further court proceedings in Tacoma. In fact, the most infamous case involved a Northwest suburban duo known as the "flesh-colored mask bandits" who hit nearly 20 banks during a 15-month, seven-state robbing spree that ended in spring 1993. Early. 4, 2020). That year (1997), he swindled an elderly woman by telling her he would use the money she gave him ($4,100) to get her grandson out of prison on appeal and then just taking the money and doing nothing. Mr. Early resigned that Sept. 10, days after being suspended, during an internal investigation led by then-Sgt. 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. According to the U.S. Attorneys sentencing memorandum to the court: It was one of the most dangerous bank robberies ever committed in Washington. But he claimed that his purpose was to expose atrocities committed by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. William Francis Sutton Jr. (June 30, 1901 - November 2, 1980) was an American bank robber. The next question is whether a reduction "is consistent with applicable policy statements issued by the Sentencing Commission." At present, there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus among either staff or incarcerated persons at the prison, see https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/index.jsp (last visited May 2, 2020), but the Court has no solid information about how much testing has been done, and it is only fair to say that the fact that there are no confirmed cases does not mean that no one in the prison has contracted the coronavirus. See, e.g., United States v. Reyes, No. Puparo has put together a comprehensive text of all the information available on St. Louis' gangland, describing wars, hits, murders, and alliances that occurred in the city from the 1900s up until now. December 6, 2006, p. A-1; Charges in Heist, Ibid,. On Monday, August 14, Robertson was charged in U.S. District Court in Tacoma with armed bank robbery. That afternoon, he was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Seattle and pleaded not guilty to the charges in the indictment. Two men shot and killed a bank security guard in Indiana to rob nearly $10,000 in order to pay off the bills of an amateur football team one of the men owned . Early has been in prison for a long time, and halfway house placement would facilitate his reentry to the community. St. Louis Police foiled the robbery, which became the focus of a 1959 movie, Hea St. Louis Bank Robbery. Early should understand that the Probation Office and the Court will be monitoring him while on supervised release and that the Court will not hesitate to recommit him to prison should he again go astray. The only suspect is Stephen Blackpool, who was seen loitering outside the bank late at night, shortly before fleeing from Coketown. 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. 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. Early's criminal history and the need to protect the public from further crimes by him. He said Sommer intended to use money from bank robberies to start a outlaw motorcycle gang in Kelowna and challenge the Hells Angels for control of drug trafficking and other lucrative criminal enterprises in British Columbia. of Def. These conditions place Mr. Early's release, including "clothes, housing, medical care and employment to ensure his entry back into society." It was done in need," Zaruba is quoted in old court records while trying to get Early to confess. Police investigate a March 9 robbery inside the Fifth Third Bank at 1311 Ridgeland Ave. in Naperville. 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. Police Chief Ron Henderson lauded two witnesses who used cellular phones to alert police to the robbery in the normally peaceful neighborhood of St. Louis. 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. Early actually would spend only two months in an RRC (June 23 to August 25) before being released to home confinement, which is of course far less restrictive than an RRC. A group of men in ski masks entered the building using a key that Pace had kept after he was fired. The case eluded officials for decades, until an obituary appeared online and family secrets began to unravel. 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 senior EARLY was arrested on March 21, 2009 by Officers of the Cayuga County, New York Sheriffs Office (CCSO) on unrelated state charges. Mr. For all of these reasons, though releasing Mr. When it comes to weapons, 44.8% of robbers used strong-arm tactics, 36.4% used firearms, and 8.5% used knives or cutting instruments. In 1989, Mr. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) terms this extremely violent method a takeover or take-charge robbery. "No one was injured." 8 million stolen, 500,000 recovered. "The elder Early then entered the bank on the pretext of opening a checking account. Sommer claimed to have witnessed robbery, rape, and murders by troops while serving tours of duty in these countries in 2004 and 2005. On Friday, August 11, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), E Division, Serious Crime Section arrested Luke Sommer in a supermarket at the Peachland Centre Mall. Sommer and his gang were prepared for combat. 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. In 1930 . Barker, Fred and Kate. The junior EARLY was ordered held without bond, pending his next scheduled court appearance, and is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Chicago. no. 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Early's supervised release conditions to require a six-month period of home confinement. August 14, 2006, p. B-2; Michael Gilbert, Bank Heist Went Like Combat Drill, Ibid,. 2113 (a) and one count of using a firearm in connection with a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. In addition, Sommer was charged with four counts of possession of an unregistered machine gun, three counts of possession of a hand grenade, and one count of possession of a homemade bomb. Hamilton attended the liberation at Lima Jail but did not enter the building, instead serving as a lookout. EDITORS NOTE: Copies of the criminal complaint filed in this case are available from the Chicago FBIs press office at (312) 829-1199. Early was once employed as a police officer with the DuPage County's Sheriff's Office. Palmer was the first defendant to accept a plea bargain, which included an agreement to be a prosecution witness. That said, the Court cannot discount the risk to Mr. Early in prison for an extended period versus releasing him now. 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 Bank of America robbery, 1975, Mayfair; London. Click here to sign up for the Subsequent investigation by the FBI and CCSO developed additional evidence linking both men to the two robberies and resulting in the charges announced today. 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. Early is also a suspect in two bank robberies in Chicago . Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. In the federal complaint, FBI agents said Louis H. Early confessed to both bank heists and implicated his son. Louis H. Early has filed a motion seeking release under 18 U.S.C. Kenneth Hopper, 58, was charged with Robbery and. Early almost that much, permitting his release to an RRC eight months before the end of his sentence. Early, who had relocated to New York, was charged with grand larceny, apparently involving issuance of bad checks (though this is not completely clear from the presentence report in the present case). The first question is whether there are "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a reduction. The charge relates to the March 18th robbery of the TCF Bank branch, located in the Danada Square Shopping Center in Wheaton. Other calls and tips helped lead police to . On Wednesday, July 1, 2009, a complaint against Luke Sommer was unsealed in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, charging him with assaulting Nathan Dunmall with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder. Louis Early Owner at PWSR Experts, LLC. 's Status Report of May 1, 2020 (dkt. The league's president, Kevin Robillard, accepted the. Mr. On Friday morning, May 23, 2008, the RCMP turned Sommer over to the FBI at the Peace Arch border station in Blaine, Washington. 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. A father and son were sentenced to prison this week for arranging to rob a Wheaton bank from the inside. Reply in Supp. 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. A gang's plans for a St Louis bank robbery become complicated when one of the thieves'. The FBI claims that Johnny Madison Williams Jr., 43, robbed 56 banks over eight years in Texas, California and Washington. Both men's attorneys, Helen Kim and Brendan Shiller, did not return Daily Herald phone calls seeking comment. 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. Louis H. Early, a former DuPage County deputy sheriff, pleaded guilty to robbing a TCF bank, located inside a grocery store, where his son Louis S. Early worked as an assistant manager, reports the Daily Herald. His arrest caps weeks of bank robberies on both sides of the river. Early was arrested in New York for bank robbery, pled guilty, and was given another sentence of 18 months to three years. The FBI obtained an arrest warrant for Dunmall and on Friday, August 18, he was arrested in Chillawack by the RCMP. 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. 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 . 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. On this same day, Alex Blum pleaded guilty before Judge Burgess to armed bank robbery, conspiracy, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. The assistant manager later told authorities he did not recognize the robber, who ordered the two bank employees to empty the vault, except for the dye packs and bait bills, and then instructed them to get down on the floor and count to 200. 3553(a). 130).). 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. Luke Sommer still doesnt understand how bad what he did really was (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Mr. [1] During his forty-year robbery career he stole an estimated $2 million, and he eventually spent more than half of his adult life in prison and escaped three times. 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. Theodore J. Conrad pulled off one of the biggest bank robberies in Cleveland's history. The exact number of men who entered the town and gathered together in front of the Clay County Savings Association differs; according to accounts it was anywhere from ten to fourteen. For violating his home-confinement agreement, Sommer was remanded to custody pending the outcome of future extradition proceedings in British Columbia Supreme Court. While one of the door guards called out the elapsed time, the leader vaulted over the teller counter and barged behind the bandit barrier into the cages, shouting threats and commands. In 1997, a Dunbar Armored Co. employee was fired for tampering with the company's vehicles. But the choices presented to the Court do not involve keeping Mr. When a six-year-old boy named Bobby Greenlease, Jr. was kidnapped, a massive effort to. Early's counsel suggests that he committed the bank robberies for which he is now imprisoned because he was suffering from depression and under the influence of drugs. Both robberies remained unsolved until LOUIS H. EARLYs arrest in New York. In August 2006, a federal grand jury in Seattle indicted the three Fort Lewis Rangers, Sommer, Palmer, and Blum, and the two Canadian civilians, Robertson and Dunmall. His ultimate release date is February 25, 2021, a little under ten months from now. He confessed to being one of the guards wielding an AK-47 assault rifle and provided detailed information about the operation. Early is not without risk, the Court concludes after considering the relevant factors that a reduction of his sentence is appropriate so long as it is combined with a change to his supervised release conditions. The jury . Surveillance footage courtesy of the FBI, Louis H. Early, 51, in his Cayuga County sheriff's booking photo, A crime scene technician checks for fingerprints March 9 inside the front door of the Fifth Third Bank at 1311 Ridgeland Ave. in Naperville. Any feedback, comments, or extra information are much . In 1793, Scotsman Patrick Lyon arrived off the boat in Philadelphia, looking to seek his fortune and play his part in the American Dream. In Sommers room, investigators found two fully automatic AK-47 assault rifles, along with eight loaded 30-round banana-clip magazines, hidden in the ceiling above his bed, two pistols, and $10,000 cash stashed under his desk. July 16, 2007, p. B-1; Mike Carter, Former Army ranger Gets 24 Years in Prison for Bank Robbery, Ibid., December 13, 2008, p. B-1; Jennifer Sullivan, Former Army Ranger Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Tacoma Bank Robbery, Ibid., December 16, 2008, p. B-1; Sara Jean Green, B.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. Not that many people in their sixties commit crimes, but the same is true of people in their fifties, and Mr. Early; and providing him with any necessary services and treatment. While there, Sommer gave RCMP investigators a lengthy videotaped statement, admitting that he was the ringleader, planned the heist, and supplied the weapons. LOUIS - An early morning bank robbery followed by a bomb threat Saturday forced parts of St. Charles Rock Road in St. Ann closed. The first bank robbery in Denmark occurred August 18, 1913 in the bank Sparekassen for Kbenhavn og Omegn at sterbro in Copenhagen. 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. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum, 45, paired the bra with a pair of wide-legged cream-colored . ", The 54-year-old Early was found out when FBI agents arrested him in DeWitt, New York, on an unrelated case and spotted a hefty supply of cash labeled "Federal Reserve Bank.". On Monday evening, he and other witnesses saw the men in the barracks with bundles of cash. With Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke, James Dukas. At 5:15 p.m. on Monday, August 7, 2006, four men, wearing soft body armor under loose clothing and balaclavas, stormed into the Bank of America branch at 5813 S Tacoma Way, brandishing semiautomatic pistols and fully automatic Russian AK-47 assault rifles, forcing people in the lobby to the floor. But the sentence reduction is conditioned upon a modification of Mr. Early also contends that the conditions at FCI Terre Haute, where he is incarcerated, also put him at greater risk of contracting the virus. An alert bystander sees the bandits exit from an automobile wearing balaclavas and carrying handguns and assault rifles, then return three minutes later with duffel bags, jump back into the vehicle, and speed away. a predetermined code that indicated that (the son) was doing well,' the declaration stated. And his counsel says that Mr. He has put together a plan for Mr. He was scheduled for an extradition hearing on July 10, but lost confidence in his altruistic crusade against war crimes. He ordered the tellers to give him only stacks of banded $20, $50 and $100 bills and not to include any bait money, with prerecorded serial numbers, or dye packs. He had pleaded guilty on December 7, 2006, to two felony counts: armed bank robbery and brandishing a machine gun during and in relation to a crime of violence. In March 2004, Mr. Early committed two bank robberies, on one of which he was armed. December 9, 2006, p. B-1; David Bowermaster, The Army Ranger Who Robbed a Bank, Ibid,. Sommers bid for freedom, however, was short-lived. The federal prosecution of a serial bank robber who briefly terrorized the St. Louis metropolitan area took an important step forward today. 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. After hearing about Sommers arrest, Robertsonss parents contacted the RCMP declaring Tigra was sorry for what he had done and wanted to turn himself in. Early was convicted in 1986 and sentenced to serve 191 days in jail, two years' probation and ordered to pay restitution. 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. Believing it to be a bank heist, the witness copies down the license plate and gives it to the Tacoma police. Photo: Stanislav Kozlovskiy / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0. Gambling casinos are considered hard targets and Byrne recommended Sommer and his gang rob banks instead. 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 Mr. Byrne changed his mind, however, and on Friday, March 9, 2007, he pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge. Louis Teller and Lora Ritenour were two of Cleveland's most notorious bank robbers. He pled guilty in 1985-86 to several separate charges of theft, one of them a felony theft charge, and was given a three-year prison sentence on the felony charge and jail sentences of three-plus months on each of two separate misdemeanor charges. Arresting the Robbers. All the defendants agreed to testify against Sommer at trial. He was given a sentence of two to four years for the bank robberies. He was incarcerated at the North Fraser Pretrial Center in Port Coquitlam to await extradition procedures. FBI Agents and Naperville police were investigating the March 9 heist when "the same unidentified individual was believed to have struck again, robbing the TCF Bank branch in Wheaton," the FBI said in the news release. Robertson, the other bandit with a handgun, identified the fourth man inside the bank as 18-year-old Nathan R. Dunmall from Chilliwack, who was the other guard wielding an AK-47 assault rifle. The banks lost about $482 million due to robberies, or $4,213 per offense. After being taken into custody, Sheriffs Investigators discovered evidence linking the senior EARLY to the Wheaton robbery. Early if he contracts coronavirus, as reliable information places him in a higher-risk category. On Thursday, August 10, FBI agents arrested Chad Palmer, at his parents' home in Chesapeake, Virginia, in possession of $9,000 from the bank robbery. His parole was revoked, and he ultimately pled guilty and was given another prison term. LEONARD, Texas (KXII) - A suspect in a bank robbery in Leonard Friday night has been arrested. He served additional prison time due to the parole revocation. Not too long after that, he returned to Illinois, where he committed the bank robberies that led to the sentence he is now serving. March 8, 2007, p. B-2; Jonathan Martin and Jennifer Sullivan, Fort Lewis Soldier Charged With Robbing Bank Twice, Ibid,. 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. They found distinctive Bank of America money bands, clothing used in the heist, military-issue body armor, guns, and ammunition. 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. Mot. Palmer was the first defendant to accept a plea bargain, which included an agreement to be a prosecution witness. 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. Weeks said they recovered a loaded .32-caliber revolver, $52,342 cash, federal reserve bank documents and a police scanner. He has almost completed his sentence, and the Bureau of Prisons itself has decided to release him to a halfway house just seven scant weeks from how, and to home confinement only two months later. A Police spokesman described it as "a neat and clean operation". During the nineteenth century, travelers on steam locomotives were at risk for train robberies. "We saw a large amount of cash in an open black leather briefcase," Weeks said. On Tuesday, police captured a man suspected of serial bank robbery after a high-speed chase through the Quad-Cities. November 30, 2006, p. A-1; David Bowermaster, Rangers Defense: If I Did It, It Was Political, Ibid,. note 1(D). 127), Ex. Scott Sanders | Staff Photographer, 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. harvnb error: no target: CITEREFSingh,_Gurpreet1996 (, The bank robbery few people recall Sheridan County Historical Society October 3, 2014, Four masked gunmen who stole $3.3 million in the UPI archives April 23, 1981, 1984 Sydney bank robbery and hostage crisis, The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, "A Secret Tunnel Leading Toward a Florida Bank Puzzles the F.B.I. Louis H. Early, a former DuPage County deputy sheriff, pleaded guilty to robbing a TCF bank, located inside a grocery store, where his son Louis S. Early worked as an assistant manager,. On Wednesday, August 9, FBI agents arrested Alex Blum at his parents home in Greenwood Village, Colorado. CID agents interviewed numerous Rangers, including Sommers platoon sergeant, who all stated that his claims of atrocities were absurd and patently untrue. On Tuesday afternoon, FBI agents executed federal search warrants on the quarters occupied by Sommer, Palmer, and Blum in Building 3475. He suffers from several medical conditions, including diabetes and hypertension. 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 . Make your practice more effective and efficient with Casetexts legal research suite. Gina Cavallaro, Rangers as Robbers?, Army Times website accessed December 15, 2008 (www.armytimes.com/news/2007/03/Atbankheist070301); Masked Men in Black Rob Bank of America on South Tacoma Way, The (Tacoma) News Tribune, August 8, 2006, p. B-2; Paul Sand, Two Soldiers Arrested in Robbery, Ibid,. According to the bank surveillance camera, the robbery, executed with military precision, took place in just two minutes and 21 seconds. Taking into account another alleged robberyin which the son reportedly drove the getaway carand the former deputy's extensive criminal background, a judge sentenced Louis H. Early on Wednesday to 13 years and 4 months in prison. One morning, Bounderby charges in upon Harthouse and Louisa, announcing that the bank has been robbed of roughly 150 pounds. Most of us traveled by Private Passenger Rail. 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. 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