Washington, D.C. – A 44-year-old District of Columbia man, Phillip Davis, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to three counts of Bank Robbery, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor announced. Davis faces a likely sentencing guideline range of 46 to 57 months’ imprisonment when he is sentenced by the Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan in early November 2008.

The defendant admitted during today’s plea proceeding that he committed two bank robberies and attempted another bank robbery in September 2007, including the robbery of the Chevy Chase Bank at 1100 17th St., 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 guilty plea, 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 the combined guilty pleas, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela Schmidt, for their work on the case.