The case eluded officials for decades, until an obituary appeared online and family secrets began to unravel. "The elder Early then entered the bank on the pretext of opening a checking account. And so ended an extremely dismal chapter in the history of the U.S. Armys 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Lewis. On August 7, 2006, four men brandishing weapons rob the Bank of America branch in South Tacoma of $54,011. In October 2018, Mr. On Tuesday afternoon, FBI agents executed federal search warrants on the quarters occupied by Sommer, Palmer, and Blum in Building 3475. The proceeds of the two robberies totaled over $70,000. Matt Bartosik is a Chicago native and a social media sovereign. The jury . 2113(a) and one count of using a firearm in connection with a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. In 2009, Mr. Early was fifty-one when he committed the bank robberies for which he is now serving time. Based on current monetary standards, the Manhattan bank heist amounts to approximately $65 million today, far surpassing any previous robberies. He said Sommer recruited two friends from Canada, both civilians, to participate in the heist. Theodore John Conrad showed up for work as a bank teller in Cleveland. 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. All the defendants agreed to testify against Sommer at trial. 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. Early has been in prison for a long time, and halfway house placement would facilitate his reentry to the community. "In fact, when it comes to bank robberies, there isn't much we haven't seen.". Olinger was charged in U.S. District Court in Tacoma on Friday, September 22, 2006, and pleaded guilty to possessing unregistered destructive devices. In Arkansas, one particularly high-profile train robbery happened in the small town of Olyphant (Jackson County) in 1893. Midtown bank robber gets away with about $500 cash, NYPD says March 21, 2022 | 3:07pm A robber ripped off a TD Bank at East 57th Street and Third Avenue Monday afternoon -- handing a teller a. The Court reduces Mr. 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. 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. 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. Prosecutor Dion replied: While we dont know if he has a mental problem, we do know he has a moral defect. Sommers bid for freedom, however, was short-lived. 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. After being taken into custody, Sheriffs Investigators discovered evidence linking the senior EARLY to the Wheaton robbery. The indictment charged all five with conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery, armed bank robbery, and brandishing firearms during and in relation to a crime of violence. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the conviction today. LOUIS - An early morning bank robbery followed by a bomb threat Saturday forced parts of St. Charles Rock Road in St. Ann closed. Louis Howard Early is being held without bond while awaiting formal indictment. [9], Khalistan Commando Force members who allegedly participated in the robbery included Harjinder Singh Jinda, Mathra Singh,[12] Paramjit Singh Panjwar,[13] Satnam Singh Bawa,[14] Gurnam Singh Bundala,[15] Sukhdev Singh Sukha, Daljit Singh Bittu,[16][17][18] Gursharan Singh Gamma[16][17] and Pritpal Singh.[19]. The younger Early later called his father while he was driving to New York 'and asked, "Did you order a pizza?" 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. Kenneth Hopper, 58, was charged with Robbery and. 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. In the meantime, Sommers defense attorney, Steven J. Krupa, entered into plea negotiations with Assistant U.S. Living St. Louis recorded the actual events of the robbery on one of their episodes. On Sunday, August 13, Tigra J. 3553(a). Finally, section 3582(c)(1)(A) requires the Court to consider the factors regarding imposition of an appropriate sentence set forth in 18 U.S.C. 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. 130).). no. ", 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.". Early was arrested in New York for bank robbery, pled guilty, and was given another sentence of 18 months to three years. Couldn't they just go fishing? Early would have been released to an RRC nine months before the end of his prison sentence. In addition, the roommate also saw AK-47 assault rifles, handguns, and grenades in their rooms, all in violation of strict army regulations regarding the possession and storage of weapons and explosive devices. 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. On Friday, December 12, 2008, Judge Burgess sentenced Sommer to an agreed-upon 24 years in federal prison, plus five years of supervised release. The FBI alleges the man in the photo is Louis H. Early. But the choices presented to the Court do not involve keeping Mr. 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. 2113 (a) and one count of using a firearm in connection with a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. The Court grants the motion for early release and reduces Mr. The robbery. On Monday, August 14, Robertson was charged in U.S. District Court in Tacoma with armed bank robbery. 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. Subsequent investigation by the FBI and CCSO developed additional evidence linking both men to the two robberies and resulting in the charges announced today. The four Houstonians were found 40 miles outside . Attorneys Michael Dion and Jill Otake to help facilitate extradition proceedings. It was a disaster from the start. Early committed two bank robberies, on one of which he was armed. Evidence Everywhere You Look, While waiting for the issuance of search warrants for the Audi and Blums private quarters, FBI agents learned from the commander of Company C, Captain Clinton Fuller, that the entire company had been granted a two-week furlough on the day of the robbery. But prosecutors allege that younger Early wasn't surprised to see his father there. Early's supervised release conditions already require substance abuse testing and treatment and mental health treatment. In 1930 . Dunbar Robbery in Los Angeles In 1997, a group of men robbed the Dunbar armored truck depot in Los Angeles and got away with nearly $19 million in cash. 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. Seafirst Bank, Lakewood, Washington, February 1997, $4.5 million ($7.5million in 2021) in cash. 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. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there was a robbery at the First Bank in the 300 block of Riverpark Dr. in East St. Louis. Barker, Fred and Kate. The younger Early was ordered held without bail in the Metropolitan Correctional Center downtown after his Wednesday court appearance in the Dirksen U.S. Early is also a suspect in two bank robberies in Chicago . 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. And Mr. Early was convicted in 1986 and sentenced to serve 191 days in jail, two years' probation and ordered to pay restitution. While there, Sommer gave RCMP investigators a lengthy videotaped statement, admitting that he was the ringleader, planned the heist, and supplied the weapons. 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. Early had a heart attack at some point when he was in custody at the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center. Scott Sanders | Staff Photographer, An image of the March 9 robbery of the Fifth Third Bank at 1311 Ridgeland Ave. in Naperville. He pleaded not guilty before District Court Judge Franklin D. Burgess (1935-2010) and was released on bond. William Francis Sutton Jr. (June 30, 1901 - November 2, 1980) was an American bank robber. [11], The Chicago Sun-Times reported that "12 to 15 Sikhs dressed as policemen and armed with submachine guns and rifles escaped with nearly $4.5 million in the biggest bank robbery in Indian history." "I personally think that it was not done vindictively. The film is now in the public domain. What followed was a sensationalized manhunt and the execution of three bandits involved in the incident.. On November 3, 1893, the seven-car Train No. It was terrifying to finally tell the truth, he . Meanwhile, in Peachland, Luke Elliott Sommer was giving lengthy telephone interviews to newspapers and magazines, and television and radio stations. 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 Operation Bank Robbery: Breaking the Bank: Directed by Michael Mallick, Jesse Rivkin. Were the Court simply being asked to fling open the doors to the prison and let Mr. The Court notes that if it had made the requested recommendation and the Bureau of Prisons had then followed it, Mr. Early pled guilty to two counts of bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. 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 . 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. Luke Sommer's Case. 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 . Louis H. Early, 54, was . Oh-so-coincidentally, the next day, six bandits got into the garage with keys in hand, then tied up . The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) terms this extremely violent method a takeover or take-charge robbery. His parole was revoked, and he ultimately pled guilty and was given another prison term. Dukes County Sheriff Robert Ogden told The Times Saturday afternoon that someone related to the Thursday morning Rockland Trust bank robbery is in custody. Mr. In both. 924(c)(1)(A). That afternoon, he was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Seattle and pleaded not guilty to the charges in the indictment. Captain Fuller told FBI agents that Luke Sommer, who supposedly had dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship, planned to travel to British Columbia and stay with his mother, Christel Davidson, in Peachland, a town of 5,000 on Lake Okanagan near Kelowna. In short, it is fair to say that for the past thirty-five years, 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. Both men were charged with first-degree murder and robbery. 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. Gambling casinos are considered hard targets and Byrne recommended Sommer and his gang rob banks instead. 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 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. Order of Mar. And although he has significant health conditions, there is nothing to suggest that he is so frail to preclude further recidivism. no. Louis Teller and Lora Ritenour were two of Cleveland's most notorious bank robbers. Gttig was arrested August 30 and Lindorff Larsen committed suicide after having fled the police. That said, the Court cannot discount the risk to Mr. 4, 2020). Unfortunately, Sommer had neglected to advise his fellow conspirators of his grandiose plan. The jury found defendant guilty on two counts. Masterminded by. Ajanta Publications,India. 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. A. Robertson, age 20, a Canadian citizen from Kelowna, B.C., voluntarily crossed the border at Blaine, Washington, and surrenderedto the FBI. His probation was revoked in 1987 when Early ran into more trouble in Cook County after being accused of stealing cars. 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. Finally, in early May 2008, Sommer agreed to be extradited from Canada. A group of men in ski masks entered the building using a key that Pace had kept after he was fired. Robert T. Hunter Sr. and his son, Robert T. Jr., formerly of Rolling Meadows, were put out of business April 22, 1993, after a high-speed chase and shoot out with police in Indiana. 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. 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. 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. In March 2004, Mr. A 175-lb. 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. Palmer was the first defendant to accept a plea bargain, which included an agreement to be a prosecution witness. 's Status Report of May 1, 2020 (dkt. The most significant factor here, in the Court's view, involves Mr. In March 2012 two robbers were arrested. The first bank robbery in Denmark occurred August 18, 1913 in the bank Sparekassen for Kbenhavn og Omegn at sterbro in Copenhagen. This is a list of bank robberies, bank robbers and gangs involved in bank robberies. He was nicknmaned ``The Shootist because he fired shots into bank . November 30, 2006, p. A-1; David Bowermaster, Rangers Defense: If I Did It, It Was Political, Ibid,. 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. p.445. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION. Five soldiers and two Canadian citizens will be charged with involvement in the crime. The senior EARLY was arrested on March 21, 2009 by Officers of the Cayuga County, New York Sheriffs Office (CCSO) on unrelated state charges. Weeks said Cayuga County deputies seized a .32-caliber handgun and $52,342 in cash at the time Early was arrested. Most of us traveled by Private Passenger Rail. One of the men shot and killed a man at the bank, the . But that is not the case. Votes: 378,878 | Gross: $88.51M. 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. One of them was a security guard at the bank. Following his release from that prison term in 1997, Mr. He confessed to being one of the guards wielding an AK-47 assault rifle and provided detailed information about the operation. He had departed Fort Lewis early Tuesday morning, just a few hours before the FBI arrived, and taken a 9:00 a.m. Frontier Airlines flight from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Denver. Palmer was the first defendant to accept a plea bargain, which included an agreement to be a prosecution witness. 3 min read. In 1989, Mr. The 27-year-old from Lisle is accused of plotting the robbery with his dad. December 6, 2006, p. A-11; David Bowermaster, Pentagon: No Evidence Found of War Crimes Ranger Alleged, Ibid,. Early would be on home confinement for six months after that, but the Court can replicate this by adding a home confinement condition to Mr. Photo: Stanislav Kozlovskiy / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0. Make your practice more effective and efficient with Casetexts legal research suite. See United States v. Early, 2020 WL 2112371, at *5 (N.D., Full title:UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. LOUIS H. EARLY, Court:UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION, finding that the risk to the public "does not outweigh the risk to [defendant] from contracting the coronavirus while incarcerated," particularly where "the Probation Office and the Court will be monitoring him while on supervised the release and the Court will not hesitate to recommit him to prison should he again go astray. 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. Mr. 19, 2019 (dkt. A gang's plans for a St Louis bank robbery become complicated when one of the thieves'. 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. With Curtis Starner, Bobby Chacon, Mikaela Gilden, Jon Gormley. The Sundance Kid and some of the notorious Wild Bunch robbed the bank on June 28, 1897. All will eventually plead guilty and be sent to federal prison. Police Search For Man Behind 3 Bank Robberies In Brooklyn. On Friday, February 27, 2009, Judge Burgess sentenced Richard A. Olinger, a minor player who stored explosive devices for Sommer in his private storage unit, to five years probation. Marshal Service pending sentencing. Their daughter eventually became close to the father she never knew, and recalled his life last week following . 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He was given a sentence of two to four years for the bank robberies. ", UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. LOUIS H. EARLY. Whitney L. Williams Jr. about 4:50 p.m. entered the TD Bank at 2417 Park. Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer. 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. 2113(a) & (e). At 9:17 that cold, drizzly Monday morning in December, a man had demanded money from a teller at the Bank United. 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 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. Byrne changed his mind, however, and on Friday, March 9, 2007, he pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge. See, e.g., United States v. Reyes, No. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Weeks said they recovered a loaded .32-caliber revolver, $52,342 cash, federal reserve bank documents and a police scanner. The only suspect is Stephen Blackpool, who was seen loitering outside the bank late at night, shortly before fleeing from Coketown. 540 million yen robbery incident in Fukutoku Bank Kobe branch, August 1994. 103). Early's supervised release, the terms of which he agrees the Court is entitled to modify in conjunction with early release from prison. 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. Police mug shots of James Earl Ray, 31, after his arrest Oct. 10, 1959, in the armed robbery of a Kroger . 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. The gang robbed the First Nation Bank, in St. Mary's Ohio, escaping with $14,000. Then early Wednesday morning he absconded from his mothers house in Peachland, B.C. Louis S. Early is free on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond. Dunmall suffered a minor stab wound and multiple cuts and bruises, but didnt require hospitalization. See U.S.S.G. 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. The FBI claims that Johnny Madison Williams Jr., 43, robbed 56 banks over eight years in Texas, California and Washington. 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