On Monday, August 14, Robertson was charged in U.S. District Court in Tacoma with armed bank robbery. 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. March 13, 2007, p. B2; Ex-Ranger Suspected in Robbery Back in U.S., Ibid,. Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer. August 14, 2006, p. B-2; Michael Gilbert, Bank Heist Went Like Combat Drill, Ibid,. At 9:17 that cold, drizzly Monday morning in December, a man had demanded money from a teller at the Bank United. The release also stated: "After being taken into custody, [Cayuga County] sheriff's investigators discovered evidence linking the senior Early to the Wheaton robbery. In 1930 . Mr. Order of Mar. LOUIS H. EARLY, age 51, of Dewitt, New York and his son, LOUIS S. EARLY, age 26, of 2200 Cherry Court in Lisle, Illinois were both charged in a criminal complaint filed earlier this week in U.S. District Court in Chicago with one count each of Bank Robbery, which is a felony offense. For violating his home-confinement agreement, Sommer was remanded to custody pending the outcome of future extradition proceedings in British Columbia Supreme Court. 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 . Said Mr. Grant These arrests show once again the importance of an effective working relationship between federal and local law enforcement agencies in combating violent crime.. Early was once employed as a police officer with the DuPage County's Sheriff's Office. But the sentence reduction is conditioned upon a modification of Mr. --------, For the reasons stated above, the Court grants Louis H. Early's emergency motion for compassionate release [119] and also grants his motion for leave to file certain medical records under seal [124]. 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. William Francis Sutton Jr. (June 30, 1901 - November 2, 1980) was an American bank robber. The risk to the public from Mr. 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,. All rights reserved, WATCH: Procession Escorts Body of Fallen Chicago Officer From Hospital, Storm System Could Bring Rain, Snow, and Gusty Winds to Chicago Area Friday, Chicago Police Officer Shot and Killed on Southwest Side, Chicago Police Release Details of What Led to Officer's Fatal Shooting in Gage Park, Secret Service, Police Seen Investigating Business in Suburban Lisle. Both robberies remained unsolved until LOUIS H. EARLYs arrest in New York. Were the Court to reduce Mr. The Court grants the motion for early release and reduces Mr. LOUIS S. EARLY appeared yesterday before United States Magistrate Judge Sidney I. Schenkier in Chicago, at which time he was formally charged. He confessed to being one of the guards wielding an AK-47 assault rifle and provided detailed information about the operation. The Sundance Kid and some of the notorious Wild Bunch robbed the bank on June 28, 1897. After being taken into custody, Sheriffs Investigators discovered evidence linking the senior EARLY to the Wheaton robbery. In many situations, halfway house placement provides necessary lead time to permit a released offender to develop a plan for, among other things, where he is going to live and what he going to do once he leaves the halfway house. The gangs leader wielded a 9-mm Glock 19 with a red laser sight, which he pointed threateningly at the employees. 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. The case eluded officials for decades, until an obituary appeared online and family secrets began to unravel. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) terms this extremely violent method a takeover or take-charge robbery. He is 62 years old. A 175-lb. Bank of America robbery, 1975, Mayfair; London. Not that many people in their sixties commit crimes, but the same is true of people in their fifties, and Mr. 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. Dunmall suffered a minor stab wound and multiple cuts and bruises, but didnt require hospitalization. 's Status Report of May 1, 2020 (dkt. At the time, Early was in the midst of a divorce. 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. The film is now in the public domain. 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. 51 of the St. Louis, Iron . note 1(D). On Friday, February 20, 2009, Judge Burgess sentenced him to 12 years in federal prison plus five years of supervised release. September 22, 2006, p. B-1; David Bowermaster, Tacoma Bank Robbed to Start Crime Family?, Ibid,. 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. 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. His allegations of war crimes were referred to the U.S. Department of Justice by the Canadian authorities. But there is more. And it would be cutting his prison sentence by only seven weeks. This movie is an authentic recreation of the '53 robbery, except the vehicles are late 50s. "No one was injured." His son was sentenced on Thursday to two years in prison, three years of supervised release, and $52,500 restitution to the TCF bank. In 1997, a Dunbar Armored Co. employee was fired for tampering with the company's vehicles. The jury found defendant guilty on two counts. 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. They said the father told them his son drove a red 2002 Toyota as the getaway car in the first heist, and that they both stayed the next night in a Naperville hotel room. A search warrant was executed at the Lilac Avenue house late Thursday evening, and the defendants were arrested and taken into custody. A Harford County jury yesterday convicted Louis Hill III of premeditated murder in the 1992 robbery of a Randallstown bank that left two tellers dead and two other employees wounded. The younger Early was ordered held without bail in the Metropolitan Correctional Center downtown after his Wednesday court appearance in the Dirksen U.S. And so ended an extremely dismal chapter in the history of the U.S. Armys 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Lewis. In 2010, Mr. A now-retired judge of this court sentenced him to a prison term of 160 months, a little over thirteen years. But he claimed that his purpose was to expose atrocities committed by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The St. Louis Bank Robbery: Directed by Charles Guggenheim, John Stix. A father and son were sentenced to prison this week for arranging to rob a Wheaton bank from the inside. Dukes County Sheriff Robert Ogden told The Times Saturday afternoon that someone related to the Thursday morning Rockland Trust bank robbery is in custody. She maintained her son was not a naturally violent person and should not be considered a risk to the public. Oklawaha, FL. On Monday evening, he and other witnesses saw the men in the barracks with bundles of cash. Louis S. Early is free on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond. This Court denied the motion, saying this: "The Court appreciates Mr. 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. Believing it to be a bank heist, the witness copies down the license plate and gives it to the Tacoma police. Blum had $2,300 cash hidden in his room. 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. Early almost that much, permitting his release to an RRC eight months before the end of his sentence. In 1793, Scotsman Patrick Lyon arrived off the boat in Philadelphia, looking to seek his fortune and play his part in the American Dream. 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. The youngest Richardson child, 10-year-old Robert Jr., said that he, like his brother Justus, used to tell people his dad was on a business trip. Early's supervised release, the terms of which he agrees the Court is entitled to modify in conjunction with early release from prison. The Early men aren't the area's first father-and-son team accused of banking heists. 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. 1935. Reedel, Aprill 24, 1953, three men and a getaway driver attempted to rob the Southwest Bank on the corner of Southwest Avenue and S. Kingshighway Boulevard in St. Louis, MO. December 9, 2006, p. B-2; Adam Lynn, Ex-Ranger Pleads Guilty in Robbery, Ibid,. 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. 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 FBI learned that Blum was a Private First Class (E-3) assigned to Company C, Second Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Lewis. Early's supervised release to require him to spend the first six months of supervised release in home confinement, living with his son Louis S. Early, under the same conditions that would apply if he were on home confinement in connection with a Bureau of Prisons commitment to a Residential Reentry Center. After he was paroled on the felony theft offense, and while on parole supervision, he forged a number of checks, apparently leading to revocation, in 1988, of his parole on the felony theft offense. February 8, 2007, p. A-1; David Bowermaster, Two Ex-Rangers to Admit Guilt in Bank Heist, Ibid,. ISBN9788120204539. Early committed two bank robberies, on one of which he was armed. 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. In Arkansas, one particularly high-profile train robbery happened in the small town of Olyphant (Jackson County) in 1893. 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. In both. See, e.g., United States v. Reyes, No. 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. Early's supervised release conditions to require a six-month period of home confinement. 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. 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. In October 2018, Mr. Theodore John Conrad showed up for work as a bank teller in Cleveland. They took at least 32 million euros in gold, precious stones and cash. 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. On Wednesday, November 29, 2006, Byrne was charged in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, with one count of conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery. "I think it was done because you are living far over your means.". Gambling casinos are considered hard targets and Byrne recommended Sommer and his gang rob banks instead. Mr. If convicted, the father and son each face up to 20 years in 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. 3, 2020) (Leinenweber, J.). Mr. The amended J&C will also include a modification of the conditions of Mr. 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. 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. Attorneys Michael Dion and Jill Otake to help facilitate extradition proceedings. Barker was a gangster whose brother and mother were slain in a machine-gun battle with federal agents in Florida while he was in federal custody in Chicago for the kidnapping of Edward G. Bremer. Early resigned that Sept. 10, days after being suspended, during an internal investigation led by then-Sgt. 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. Then early Wednesday morning he absconded from his mothers house in Peachland, B.C. 19, 2019 (dkt. In 1989, Mr. Aug 13, 2018 Steve Palace. Early contends that the coronavirus outbreak poses a great risk to his health and life as long as he remains incarcerated. 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 On Wednesday, August 9, FBI agents arrested Alex Blum at his parents home in Greenwood Village, Colorado. 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. Operation Bank Robbery: Breaking the Bank: Directed by Michael Mallick, Jesse Rivkin. Early's sentence. The senior EARLY was arrested on March 21, 2009 by Officers of the Cayuga County, New York Sheriffs Office (CCSO) on unrelated state charges. Barker, Fred and Kate. 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, who was in custody continuously from the date of his arrest on May 1, 2009, has served nearly all of his prison time, and he is scheduled to be released to a residential reentry center (RRC) in about seven weeks, on June 23, 2020, and then to home confinement on August 25, 2020. Early also contends that the conditions at FCI Terre Haute, where he is incarcerated, also put him at greater risk of contracting the virus. Scott Sanders | Staff Photographer. 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. 3 min read. 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. And although he has significant health conditions, there is nothing to suggest that he is so frail to preclude further recidivism. Early was fifty-one when he committed the bank robberies for which he is now serving time. 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. 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