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AUGUST 14, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BALTIMORE SERIAL BANK ROBBER SENTENCED TO OVER 11 YEARS
Robbed Nine Banks in Nine Weeks
Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson sentenced Antonia Damon Hurd, age 31, of Baltimore, today to 140 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for bank robbery, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. Judge Nickerson ordered Hurd to pay restitution of $31,844.
According to his guilty plea, from April 5 to June 8, 2006 Hurd approached a teller with a demand note and robbed the following banks in Maryland of a total of $31,844: Wachovia Bank on Frederick Road in Baltimore of $2,711; Provident Bank on Reisterstown Road in Owings Mills of $2,156; BB&T Bank on West Timonium Road in Timonium of $2,005; Wachovia Bank on Washington Boulevard in Jessup of $3,890; Wachovia Bank on York Road in Timonium of $2,682; Sun Trust Bank on Reisterstown Road in Reisterstown of $2,996; Susquehanna Bank on Owings Mills Boulevard in Owings Mills of $2,800; Provident Bank on Baltimore National Pike in Ellicott City of $7,300; and Wachovia Bank on Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie of $5,304.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein thanked the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Baltimore County Police Department for their investigative work, and commended Assistant United States Attorney Richard C. Kay, who prosecuted the case.