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August 23, 2006

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RANDALLSTOWN MAN SENTENCED FOR HARBORING A FUGITIVE

Defendant Gets 3 Years in Prison for Assisting Bank Robber
Featured on America’s Most Wanted

BALTIMORE, Maryland - Marc Munford, age 38, of Randallstown, Maryland was sentenced today to 33 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release for harboring a fugitive, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.

U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein stated, "It is a federal crime to help a person seeking to evade capture by law enforcement officers. If you assist a criminal who is trying to avoid being arrested on federal felony charges, you can face up to 5 years in federal prison."

According to the statement of facts presented at his guilty plea on January 5, 2006, Kendall Charles Alexander, Sr. and his son, Kendall Charles Alexander, Jr., age 22, of Baltimore robbed the Wachovia Bank at 1726 East Northern Parkway in Baltimore on August 10, 2005. Alexander, Sr. was armed with an assault weapon, which he fired during the course of the robbery. The men stole approximately $3,627.

Alexander, Jr. was arrested on September 1, 2005, and confessed that he and his father had robbed the Wachovia Bank.

On September 17, 2005, Kendall Charles Alexander, Sr. returned to the same Wachovia Bank, and brandished a revolver to a bank employee and demanded money. Alexander, Sr. took a total of $221,651 from the employees at the bank.

Alexander, Sr. fled to North Carolina. After being featured on America’s Most Wanted, and concerned that he would be apprehended, Alexander, Sr. telephoned Marc Munford in Maryland, subsequently meeting with him in the Baltimore area.

On October 5, 2005, Munford went to a hotel in the Baltimore area and rented a hotel room for Alexander, Sr. Munford provided Alexander, Sr. with the hotel room key. He did so to prevent Alexander, Sr.’s arrest. On October 6, 2005, Alexander, Sr. was arrested shortly after departing his hotel.

Kendall Alexander, Sr. pled guilty to armed bank robbery on February 3, 2006 and was sentenced on April 21, 2006 to 27 years in prison. Co-defendant Kendall Alexander, Jr. pled guilty on November 18, 2005, to possession of a firearm during a crime of violence and was sentenced on March 24, 2006 to ten years in prison.

United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein thanked the Federal Bureau of Investigation Bank Robbery Task Force for its investigative work. The FBI Task Force is made up of detectives from the Baltimore City Police Department, Baltimore County Police Department and Special Agents of the FBI. Mr. Rosenstein praised Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Levin, who prosecuted the case.

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