CID agents interviewed numerous Rangers, including Sommers platoon sergeant, who all stated that his claims of atrocities were absurd and patently untrue. Early was convicted in 1986 and sentenced to serve 191 days in jail, two years' probation and ordered to pay restitution. A. Robertson, a Canadian citizen from Kelowna, B.C. Seafirst Bank, Lakewood, Washington, February 1997, $4.5 million ($7.5million in 2021) in cash. On Monday, January 4, 2010, Sommer appeared before Judge James L. Robart in U.S. District Court in Seattle and pleaded guilty to both felonies, agreeing to a 20 year sentence (Federal sentencing guidelines provide for a maximum of 30 years). Mr. Each. Mr. Nine days later, a suspect matching the same description struck the Danada TCF branch bank, where Early Jr. was working. Tim O'Neil also wrote a great pictorial article on the robbery in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on July 25, 2012.. The amended J&C will also include a modification of the conditions of Mr. September 23, 2006, p. B-2; Michael Gilbert, Ranger Pleads Guilty to Robbery, Ibid,. 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. In the meantime, Sommers defense attorney, Steven J. Krupa, entered into plea negotiations with Assistant U.S. That afternoon, he was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Seattle and pleaded not guilty to the charges in the indictment. June 30, 2007, p. B-1; David Bowermaster, Army Calls Rangers War-Crime Claim Baseless, Ibid,. ISBN9788120204539. He was scheduled for an extradition hearing on July 10, but lost confidence in his altruistic crusade against war crimes. Public Domain/Wikimedia The men thought they'd take the bank for around $30,000. During the nineteenth century, travelers on steam locomotives were at risk for train robberies. Mr. 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. 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. 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. Gttig was arrested August 30 and Lindorff Larsen committed suicide after having fled the police. The case eluded officials for decades, until an obituary appeared online and family secrets began to unravel. He was released on a $25,000 surety bond, with the promise to return to the United States for further court proceedings. Other calls and tips helped lead police to . His son was sentenced on Thursday to two years in prison, three years of supervised release, and $52,500 restitution to the TCF bank. It was a disaster from the start. Hamilton attended the liberation at Lima Jail but did not enter the building, instead serving as a lookout. The Free Encyclopedia of Washington State History. If the defendant opted for a trial, he would face up to life in prison, if convicted on all seven felony counts. The first bank robbery in Denmark occurred August 18, 1913 in the bank Sparekassen for Kbenhavn og Omegn at sterbro in Copenhagen. Byrne changed his mind, however, and on Friday, March 9, 2007, he pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge. 2113(a) and one count of using a firearm in connection with a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. The 27-year-old from Lisle is accused of plotting the robbery with his dad. Early has now filed a motion seeking immediate release under section 603(b) of the First Step Act, which amended 18 U.S.C. 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. 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. August 16, 2006, p. A-1; Stacey Mulick, Fort Lewis Ranger Charged, Ibid,. 09 CR 282 (N.D. Ill. May. Both received lengthy prison terms. Cutting out the halfway house placement is not an inconsequential matter. Early's parole was revoked not once but twice. Southern District of Alabama | United States District Court 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. 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. note 1(D). On Friday morning, May 23, 2008, the RCMP turned Sommer over to the FBI at the Peace Arch border station in Blaine, Washington. 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. This isn't Louis H. Early's first brush with the law in DuPage County. Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was joined today by Mark W. Field, Chief of the Wheaton, Illinois Police Department (WPD) and David E. Dial, Chief of the Naperville, Illinois Police Department (NPD) in announcing the arrest of two men in connection with the armed robberies, earlier this month, of two west suburban banks. 8 million stolen, 500,000 recovered. [1], In 1987, Labh Singh (Sukhdev Singh Sukha) allegedly masterminded[7] what was at that time the largest bank robbery in Indian history, netting almost 60million (58 million rupees-US$4.5 million) from Millar Ganj branch of Punjab National Bank, Ludhiana;[7] a part of this stolen money belonged to the Reserve Bank of India, India's central bank. August 14, 2006, p. B-1; David Bowermaster, Fort Lewis Soldier Charged Over Stored Weapons, Ibid,. May 28, 2008, p.B-2; Adam Lynn, Ex-Ranger Gets 24 Years for Tacoma Bank Job, Ibid,. The FBI learned that Blum was a Private First Class (E-3) assigned to Company C, Second Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Lewis. black bear dead near a duffle bag and some $2 million worth of cocaine that had been opened and scattered over a hillside. Date: May 4, 2020, granting compassionate release to diabetic inmate who had previously suffered a heart attack and whose projected release date was "just seven scant weeks" from the court's decision date, stating that "[m]ost reasonable observers looking at [the defendant's] record would find it quite likely that he will commit additional crimes once he is released," but granting compassionate release because the defendant would "very shortly be back in society, irrespective of what the Court does", Case No. Later, two more Fort Lewis Rangers were charged in connection with the bank robbery: Corporal Richard Allen Olinger, age 21, and Specialist Fourth Class Scott A. Byrne, age 32. 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. But that is not the case. Not that many people in their sixties commit crimes, but the same is true of people in their fifties, and Mr. But prosecutors allege that younger Early wasn't surprised to see his father there. It looked very suspicious, like it could be proceeds of a bank robbery, so we called the FBI and got a search warrant.". December 6, 2006, p. A-11; David Bowermaster, Pentagon: No Evidence Found of War Crimes Ranger Alleged, Ibid,. March 13, 2007, p. B2; Ex-Ranger Suspected in Robbery Back in U.S., Ibid,. 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 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. 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. The gangs leader wielded a 9-mm Glock 19 with a red laser sight, which he pointed threateningly at the employees. A. Robertson, age 20, a Canadian citizen from Kelowna, B.C., voluntarily crossed the border at Blaine, Washington, and surrenderedto the FBI. Early also contends that the conditions at FCI Terre Haute, where he is incarcerated, also put him at greater risk of contracting the virus. He suffers from several medical conditions, including diabetes and hypertension. 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. This page was last edited on 21 February 2023, at 04:14. p.445. His ultimate release date is February 25, 2021, a little under ten months from now. All the defendants agreed to testify against Sommer at trial. Mr. February 8, 2007, p. A-1; David Bowermaster, Two Ex-Rangers to Admit Guilt in Bank Heist, Ibid,. It was only after the big bank robbery at Ludhiana in February 1987 that they could purchase sophisticated weapons; there was only one sten gun in the entire state. and AK-47 rifles. On Tuesday afternoon, FBI agents executed federal search warrants on the quarters occupied by Sommer, Palmer, and Blum in Building 3475. Early life. But that's just the most recent episode; it disregards the rest of his history. For all of these reasons, though releasing Mr. 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. 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. The St. Louis Bank Robbery: Directed by Charles Guggenheim, John Stix. The first bank robbery in Denmark occurred August 18, 1913 in the bank Sparekassen for Kbenhavn og Omegn at sterbro in Copenhagen. [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. St. Louis Police foiled the robbery, which became the focus of a 1959 movie, Hea St. Louis Bank Robbery. The charge relates to a March 18 heist at a TCF Bank branch in the Danada Square Shopping Center in Wheaton, but evidence in the complaint also connects the father and son to a March 9 heist at a Fifth Third Bank in Naperville, the FBI said. Click here to sign up for the So Mr. The Court summarizes this in the paragraphs that follow. 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. 3582(c)(1)(A) or a recommendation for immediate release on home confinement. How the feds discovered that Martin Luther King's killer was a small-time St. Louis robber. 127), Ex. Any feedback, comments, or extra information are much . Louis S. Early led him into an office, at which point his father 'acted as if he were displaying a weapon to his son, in an attempt to legitimize the robbery' for the bank's security cameras, according to a court plea declaration. But he claimed that his purpose was to expose atrocities committed by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Luke Sommer's Case. 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. Early's prison sentence to time served and directs the Clerk to prepare an amended judgment and commitment order (J&C) accordingly. On Friday, December 12, 2008, Judge Burgess sentenced Sommer to an agreed-upon 24 years in federal prison, plus five years of supervised release. In short, it is fair to say that for the past thirty-five years, Mr. The robbery is one of the most audacious and dangerous bank heists ever committed in Washington state. The gang robbed the First Nation Bank, in St. Mary's Ohio, escaping with $14,000. 19, 2019 (dkt. 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 resigned that Sept. 10, days after being suspended, during an internal investigation led by then-Sgt. 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. The other, Billie Allen, 19, was arrested early Tuesday at a house in south St. Louis. 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. They took at least 32 million euros in gold, precious stones and cash. 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. September 22, 2006, p. B-1; David Bowermaster, Tacoma Bank Robbed to Start Crime Family?, Ibid,. Louis H. Early has filed a motion seeking release under 18 U.S.C. Theodore J. Conrad pulled off one of the biggest bank robberies in Cleveland's history. Louis Howard Early is being held without bond while awaiting formal indictment. An ATM technician robbery in Tennessee ended with the arrests of four people from Houston -- including a rapper and the father of Darius Dugas Jr. 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. Early's contentions regarding his need for a longer reentry placement, but it must balance this with the issue of community safety, and given his significant history of recidivism the Court declines to recommend a longer-than-usual reentry placement." If convicted, the father and son each face up to 20 years in prison. "No one was injured." Mot. And if and when that happens, it is likely to spread more quickly than in the general population due to, among other things, the difficulty of accomplishing social distancing in a prison environment and the constant influx of people coming and going from outside the prison, including correctional staff. no. Not too long after that, he returned to Illinois, where he committed the bank robberies that led to the sentence he is now serving. Hamilton went on to commit a spree of chaotic, yet lucrative, bank robberies with the Dillinger gang. He was released on bond but placed under house arrest pending the outcome of extradition procedures. The question, essentially, boils down to whether the Court should eliminate his last seven weeks in prison and his two months of halfway house confinement. 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. 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. In March 2012 two robbers were arrested. The parachutist, a former Kentucky narcotics investigator, had . Make your practice more effective and efficient with Casetexts legal research suite. According to prosecuting attorneys Dion and Otake, Sommer had designated Robertson a captain in his imagined criminal motorcycle gang. In March 2004, Mr. 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. Attorneys Michael Dion and Jill Otake to help facilitate extradition proceedings. Authorities later verified the hotel room and car were obtained in the younger man's name, the federal complaint said. no. 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. His story was that the bank robbery and his subsequent capture was a political statement, orchestrated to expose war crimes being committed by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. August 13, 2006, p. B-1; Joe Mullin, Fourth Suspect Held in Robbery, Ibid,. A man arrested on Saturday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation has confessed to robbing 56 banks in California, Texas and Washington over eight years, often with the help of his wife. August 11, 2006, p. B-2; Paul Sand, Third Fort Lewis Soldier arrested in Bank Robbery Case, Ibid,. (Josh Reynolds/Ap) The greatest art heist of all time remains unsolved, but a new book reveals that a small-time gangster may have masterminded the audacious 1990 robbery that relieved Boston's. Subsequent investigation by the FBI and Cayuga County sheriff's office developed additional evidence linking both men to the two robberies and resulting in the charges announced today.". Unfortunately, Sommer had neglected to advise his fellow conspirators of his grandiose plan. 600 million yen robbery incident in Tachikawa, Tokyo, May 2011. 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. But the choices presented to the Court do not involve keeping Mr. And Mr. Early's release from prison seven weeks early does not outweigh the risk to him from contracting the coronavirus while incarcerated, given the medical conditions that place him at a higher risk of serious illness. Naperville He waived his right to a preliminary hearing May 1 during his first federal court appearance. He is hired to help the would be bank robbers stick up a local bank. 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. Early's supervised release conditions to require a six-month period of home confinement. 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.. When a six-year-old boy named Bobby Greenlease, Jr. was kidnapped, a massive effort to. 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. LEONARD, Texas (KXII) - A suspect in a bank robbery in Leonard Friday night has been arrested. Photo: Stanislav Kozlovskiy / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0. His probation was revoked in 1987 when Early ran into more trouble in Cook County after being accused of stealing cars. 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. 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 . On this day, April 24, in 1953, robbers were gunned down in what became known as the Great St. Louis Bank Robbery. 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. LOUIS - An early morning bank robbery followed by a bomb threat Saturday forced parts of St. Charles Rock Road in St. Ann closed. Early. 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. If convicted of the charge filed against them, both men face a possible sentence of up to (20) years incarceration. Louis Early Owner at PWSR Experts, LLC. Police mug shots of James Earl Ray, 31, after his arrest Oct. 10, 1959, in the armed robbery of a Kroger . The Court notes that if it had made the requested recommendation and the Bureau of Prisons had then followed it, Mr. He was released on federal supervised release in September 2008. Mr. 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. On Tuesday, August 22, 2006, FBI agents searched Olingers private storage unit in Parkland (Pierce County) and found a black duffel bag containing two military-issue flash-bang grenades, one smoke grenade, and a homemade bomb. Mr. "Some of it was stacked in bricks of plastic shrink wrap similar to vault money. His arrest caps weeks of bank robberies on both sides of the river. -----. Contact Us- Overview- Territory/Jurisdiction, News and Outreach- Press Room | Stories- In Your Community, About Us- Our People & Capabilities- What We Investigate- Our Partnerships- Chicago History, Father-Son Team Charged with Two West Suburban Bank Robberies. of Def. 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The third bank robber to be sentenced was Tigra J. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) terms this extremely violent method a takeover or take-charge robbery. On Tuesday, May 27, Sommer appeared before Judge Franklin D. Burgess in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery, armed bank robbery, brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and possession of an unregistered destructive device (a grenade). 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. 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. 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. 130).). Early's supervised release, the terms of which he agrees the Court is entitled to modify in conjunction with early release from prison. His son, Louis S. Early, served as the getaway driver for the first robbery and actively assisted in the second, which took place at a bank where Louis S. worked. 04 CR 970, 2020 WL 1663129, at *2 (N.D. Ill. Apr. March 8, 2007, p. B-2; Jonathan Martin and Jennifer Sullivan, Fort Lewis Soldier Charged With Robbing Bank Twice, Ibid,. Mr. 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. Matt Bartosik is a Chicago native and a social media sovereign. 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. 2113(a) & (e). Sommer claimed to have witnessed robbery, rape, and murders by troops while serving tours of duty in these countries in 2004 and 2005. At the time, Early was in the midst of a divorce. Gordon "Butch" Earley, Jr. appeals his conviction of bank larceny of the Grinnell State Bank in violation of 18 U.S.C. After being taken into custody, Sheriffs Investigators discovered evidence linking the senior EARLY to the Wheaton robbery. December 9, 2006, p. B-1; David Bowermaster, The Army Ranger Who Robbed a Bank, Ibid,. 1935. While two robbers with automatic rifles covered the banks entrances, the other two, with handguns, moved swiftly to confront the tellers. 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. 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