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. Wednesday marks 30 years . It was terrifying to finally tell the truth, he . Southern District of Alabama | United States District Court 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. 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. 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. The Free Encyclopedia of Washington State History. Early was arrested in New York for bank robbery, pled guilty, and was given another sentence of 18 months to three years. A Police spokesman described it as "a neat and clean operation". They'll have plenty of time for good old-fashioned father-son bonding. 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. Barker, Fred and Kate. 04 CR 970, 2020 WL 1663129, at *2 (N.D. Ill. Apr. During questioning, Blum confessed to driving the getaway car, for which he was paid $10,000, and provided the identities of the other men involved in the robbery. She maintained her son was not a naturally violent person and should not be considered a risk to the public. Early walk out, it would be hesitant to do so even though the sentence reduction sought is not, in the scheme of things, a particularly large one. note 1(D). 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,. He then fled. [8][9] It was documented as Biggest Bank Robbery under Curiosities and wonders in Limca Book of Records. And it would be cutting his prison sentence by only seven weeks. He was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Reply in Supp. "Some of it was stacked in bricks of plastic shrink wrap similar to vault money. According to bank examiners, the exact amount. Cutting out the halfway house placement is not an inconsequential matter. The Court notes that if it had made the requested recommendation and the Bureau of Prisons had then followed it, Mr. Operation Bank Robbery: Breaking the Bank: Directed by Michael Mallick, Jesse Rivkin. Mr. And although he has significant health conditions, there is nothing to suggest that he is so frail to preclude further recidivism. 's Emerg. The banks lost about $482 million due to robberies, or $4,213 per offense. The first question is whether there are "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a reduction. Early's son has submitted a lengthy letter to the Court saying that he has been able to reconnect with his father during his time in custody and has developed a much stronger and better bond. C. And although Mr. In both heists, the elder Early donned a baseball cap and sunglasses and warned tellers not to try anything "funny," the federal complaint states. The parachutist, a former Kentucky narcotics investigator, had . The FBI learned that Blum was a Private First Class (E-3) assigned to Company C, Second Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Lewis. [24][25] Robbers disarmed the security guard and opened more than 400 safety deposit boxes. 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.". 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. 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. Dandre R. Brown, 30, of Godfrey, Illinois, pleaded guilty to a six-count federal indictment charging him with five counts of bank robbery and one count of transporting a stolen vehicle across state lines. Blum had $2,300 cash hidden in his room. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION. 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. The younger Early later called his father while he was driving to New York 'and asked, "Did you order a pizza?" Matt Bartosik is a Chicago native and a social media sovereign. 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. 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 contends that the coronavirus outbreak poses a great risk to his health and life as long as he remains incarcerated. But there is more. 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. The risk to the public from Mr. On Tuesday, police captured a man suspected of serial bank robbery after a high-speed chase through the Quad-Cities. 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. 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. 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. Both men were charged with first-degree murder and robbery. On Sunday, August 13, Tigra J. [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. 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. 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." August 13, 2006, p. B-1; Joe Mullin, Fourth Suspect Held in Robbery, Ibid,. 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 Sundance Kid and some of the notorious Wild Bunch robbed the bank on June 28, 1897. 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 . He said Sommer recruited two friends from Canada, both civilians, to participate in the heist. 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. 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 Sommer and his gang were prepared for combat. A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation. Interesting hobby choice. 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,. But that's just the most recent episode; it disregards the rest of his history. August 14, 2006, p. B-2; Michael Gilbert, Bank Heist Went Like Combat Drill, Ibid,. 3 min read. He served additional prison time due to the parole revocation. 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. May 24, 2008, p. B-2; Adam Lynn, Leader of Bank Robbery Gang Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Sentence, Ibid,. Oh-so-coincidentally, the next day, six bandits got into the garage with keys in hand, then tied up . He said a press release from the Cape. Bank robbery statistics from 2020 report there were zero bank robberies for 12 months in South Africa. Mr. 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. --------, 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]. Weeks of the Cayuga County sheriff's office in New York said they contacted the FBI after spotting suspicious items in a motel room Early had rented. A gang's plans for a St Louis bank robbery become complicated when one of the thieves'. The father and son face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. The license plate came back to a silver 2001 four-door Audi A4, registered to 19-year-old Alex M. Blum and his father in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Louis Howard Early is being held without bond while awaiting formal indictment. Leonard Police said it happened around 6 p.m. at the First United Bank at 200 W. Collins Street when . 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. March 24, 2007, p. B-1; David Bowermaster, Bank Robber fighting Extradition Disappears, Ibid,. Nine days later, a suspect matching the same description struck the Danada TCF branch bank, where Early Jr. was working. This Court denied the motion, saying this: "The Court appreciates Mr. 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. Both bank robberies remained unsolved until March 21, when the elder Early was arrested in DeWitt, New York, on unrelated charges after a female associate accused him of vandalizing her car and brandishing a gun during a dispute. 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. 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. Early if he contracts coronavirus, as reliable information places him in a higher-risk category. CID agents interviewed numerous Rangers, including Sommers platoon sergeant, who all stated that his claims of atrocities were absurd and patently untrue. See, e.g., United States v. Reyes, No. Couldn't they just go fishing? When a six-year-old boy named Bobby Greenlease, Jr. was kidnapped, a massive effort to. They found distinctive Bank of America money bands, clothing used in the heist, military-issue body armor, guns, and ammunition. In both. black bear dead near a duffle bag and some $2 million worth of cocaine that had been opened and scattered over a hillside. 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. In September 1953, St. Louis agents became involved in one of the Bureau's most famous kidnapping cases. Mot. But that is not the case. At the time, Early was in the midst of a divorce. Mr. 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 . 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. December 6, 2006, p. A-1; Charges in Heist, Ibid,. For violating his home-confinement agreement, Sommer was remanded to custody pending the outcome of future extradition proceedings in British Columbia Supreme Court. 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. Most of us traveled by Private Passenger Rail. But the sentence reduction is conditioned upon a modification of Mr. On Tuesday afternoon, FBI agents executed federal search warrants on the quarters occupied by Sommer, Palmer, and Blum in Building 3475. [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. 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 INITIAL POST: A 35-year-old Maryland man was arrested Monday after robbing a bank in Palmer Township, police report. "I think it was done because you are living far over your means.". p.445. For all of these reasons, though releasing Mr. Early has spent nearly all of his time serving jail or prison sentences and finding ways to get back into jail or prison. Following his release from that prison term in 1997, Mr. Unlike Early, though, the elder Hunter attempted to take the blame to protect his son. And on Monday, March 12, Tigra Robertson pleaded guilty before Judge Burgess to the same charges. At least one robber is still free. This is a list of bank robberies, bank robbers and gangs involved in bank robberies. 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. 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. 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. 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. Police Search For Man Behind 3 Bank Robberies In Brooklyn. Lt. Joseph J. Casetext, Inc. and Casetext are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice. If the defendant opted for a trial, he would face up to life in prison, if convicted on all seven felony counts. 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. 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. Not that many people in their sixties commit crimes, but the same is true of people in their fifties, and Mr. Were the Court simply being asked to fling open the doors to the prison and let Mr. The Early men aren't the area's first father-and-son team accused of banking heists. While two robbers with automatic rifles covered the banks entrances, the other two, with handguns, moved swiftly to confront the tellers. The league's president, Kevin Robillard, accepted the. August 11, 2006, p. B-2; Paul Sand, Third Fort Lewis Soldier arrested in Bank Robbery Case, Ibid,. 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. On the night of October 31, 2005, robbers entered the safety deposit boxes of SKB Bank (Societe Generale) in Ljubljana through the main door and deactivated the alarm system. 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. The jury . Early pled guilty in 2000 and received a prison sentence of 18 months to three years (it looks like he served the full three, until April 2003), followed by parole, which was later revoked for various violations, including passing a bad check in January 2004. On August 7, 2006, four men brandishing weapons rob the Bank of America branch in South Tacoma of $54,011. 's Status Report of May 1, 2020 (dkt. In short, it is fair to say that for the past thirty-five years, Mr. 2113(a) and one count of using a firearm in connection with a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. 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. 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. Theodore J. Conrad pulled off one of the biggest bank robberies in Cleveland's history. 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. Scott Sanders | Staff Photographer, An image of the March 9 robbery of the Fifth Third Bank at 1311 Ridgeland Ave. in Naperville. (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. Unfortunately, Sommer had neglected to advise his fellow conspirators of his grandiose plan. 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. Theodore John Conrad showed up for work as a bank teller in Cleveland. He confessed to being one of the guards wielding an AK-47 assault rifle and provided detailed information about the operation. 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. With Curtis Starner, Bobby Chacon, Mikaela Gilden, Jon Gormley. The younger Early acted as a getaway driver for his father in the Naperville heist and helped plan the Wheaton robbery, selecting both a date and time when the son, who was an assistant bank manager at the TCF, would be working, the news release said. His allegations of war crimes were referred to the U.S. Department of Justice by the Canadian authorities. Mr. 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. Votes: 378,878 | Gross: $88.51M. 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. But the choices presented to the Court do not involve keeping Mr. Early committed two bank robberies, on one of which he was armed. 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. Early. Early's prison sentence to time served and directs the Clerk to prepare an amended judgment and commitment order (J&C) accordingly. See Def. In the meantime, Sommers defense attorney, Steven J. Krupa, entered into plea negotiations with Assistant U.S. 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. And 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. December 9, 2006, p. B-1; David Bowermaster, The Army Ranger Who Robbed a Bank, Ibid,. The senior EARLY was arrested on March 21, 2009 by Officers of the Cayuga County, New York Sheriffs Office (CCSO) on unrelated state charges. "While it is unusual to have a father-son team rob a bank, it certainly isn't the first time it's happened," said Ross Rice, an FBI spokesman. He is hired to help the would be bank robbers stick up a local bank. Marshal Service pending sentencing. Early was once employed as a police officer with the DuPage County's Sheriff's Office. His parole was revoked a second time when he was arrested in 1999 for grand larceny after stealing $5,600 that his employer had entrusted to him to pay distributors of the employer's product. 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. Luke Sommer still doesnt understand how bad what he did really was (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). 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. 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. In October 2018, Mr. 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). 3553(a). 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. March 8, 2007, p. B-2; Jonathan Martin and Jennifer Sullivan, Fort Lewis Soldier Charged With Robbing Bank Twice, Ibid,. Believing it to be a bank heist, the witness copies down the license plate and gives it to the Tacoma police. 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. 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