Orlando, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg proclaims that Nacoe Ray Brown (54, Baltimore, MD) has pleaded responsible to financial institution theft and to violating the phrases of his supervised launch. Brown faces a most penalty of 20 years in federal jail for the financial institution theft offense and as much as 3 years’ imprisonment for violating the phrases of his supervised launch. A sentencing date has not but been set.
According to the plea settlement and different courtroom paperwork, Brown was beforehand convicted of robbing three banks within the Baltimore space in 2001. After a federal jury convicted him of the robberies, he was sentenced to 25 years in federal jail. In 2020, Brown was granted an early launch from jail. Brown then started serving his time period of supervised launch beneath the U.S. Probation Office in Baltimore.
On June 28, 2022, whereas visiting Florida, Brown robbed the McCoy Federal Credit Union in Belle Isle. Wearing a baseball cap, sun shades, a surgical fashion facemask, and plastic gloves, Brown handed a be aware to the teller threatening that he had a gun and demanding cash. He fled the financial institution with $4,296 in stolen money. Surveillance cameras captured Brown as he appeared to the teller throughout the theft:
A witness watched Brown flee the financial institution and enter a close-by fuel station the place he had a change of garments staged. The witness reported this to the Belle Isle Police Department, who rapidly responded and positioned Brown at a resort the place he was staying. Police recovered the demand be aware and the stolen money from Brown’s bag. They additionally recovered the disguise he had discarded within the restroom of the fuel station.
After Brown was arrested, he instructed authorities that he dedicated the financial institution theft as a result of he was filming a film in Florida and had run out of cash to pay for the manufacturing.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Belle Isle Police Department. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michael P. Felicetta.
This case is a part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing collectively all ranges of regulation enforcement and the communities they serve to cut back violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everybody. On May 26, 2021, the Department launched a violent crime discount technique strengthening PSN based mostly on these core rules: fostering belief and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that assist stop violence from occurring within the first place, setting targeted and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the outcomes.