WASHINGTON - A 44-year-old District of Columbia man, Phillip Davis, has been sentenced to 46 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $3,300 in restitution following his July 2008 guilty plea to three counts of Bank Robbery, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor announced today.

Davis was sentenced earlier today before U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan. The defendant admitted during the previous plea proceeding that he committed two bank robberies and attempted another bank robbery in September 2007, namely, the robbery of the Chevy Chase Bank at 1100 17th Street, NW, Washington, D.C., on September 4, 2007; the attempted robbery of the PNC Bank at 6196 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill, Maryland, on September 17, 2007; and the robbery of the PNC Bank at 650 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, D.C., also on September 17, 2007. The defendant obtained a total of $3,300 from the robberies.

In announcing the sentence, U.S. Attorney Taylor commended the excellent work of the investigators in the case, including the FBI's CR-2 Violent Crime Squad, and particularly FBI Special Agent Aaron Haass, MPD Detectives Elmer (Buddy) Baylor, Dick Hamilton and A.J. Johnson of the Bank Robbery Squad and Prince George's County Detective Greg Domogauer. He also commended Assistant U.S. Attorney Bryan Foreman of the District of Maryland, who coordinated the transfer of the Maryland bank robbery to the District of Columbia for a global plea disposition, Victim Witness Advocate Yvonne Bryant, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela Schmidt for their work on the case.