Thomas Scott Woodward, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, announces the results of the January 2012 federal Grand Jury.

The following named individuals have been charged with a Federal crime or crimes by the return of indictments by the Grand Jury. The return of an indictment is a method of informing the defendant of alleged violations which must be proved in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt to overcome a defendant’s presumption of innocence.

Two Men and a Woman Charged in Two Separate Bank Robberies

TULSA, Oklahoma – Two men were charged for two separate armed bank robberies by a seven count indictment. The robberies were of an Arvest Bank branch and the City National Bank and Trust Company of Lawton, Oklahoma branch, both located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in August and July 2011.

Calvin Shobe, a/k/a “Koo-G”, 28, of Coffeyville, Kansas, and Chantz Germaine Patterson, a/k/a “Chantz Terrance Patterson”, are accused of the armed robbery on August 2, 2011 of the Arvest Bank located at 4825 East 36th Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma. The men allegedly procured another man, Joseph Paul Beeson, III, to actually commit the armed robbery. They allegedly instructed Beeson how to commit the robbery and furnished him with a Hi-Point, Model 40P, .40 caliber pistol. During the course of the armed robbery it is alleged that Beeson brandished the firearm. Both Shobe and Patterson are charged with conspiracy to commit the armed robbery, bank robbery with a dangerous weapon, possessing a firearm after a felony conviction and causing the use, carrying and brandishing of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. The armed robbery netted $4,068. After the armed robbery, Beeson met Patterson and Shobe returning the pistol to them and the stolen monies.

Patterson is accused of possessing the pistol after being convicted in September 1998 of aggravated robbery, a felony, in the Sedgwick County, Kansas District Court. Shobe is accused of possessing the pistol after being convicted of a Violation of Controlled Substance Laws Via Communication Facility, a User or Possession of Paraphernalia with Intent to Cultivate Controlled Substance, and Cultivate or Distribute Substance, each a felony, in Montgomery County, Kansas District Court in March 2011.

Patterson and Shobe are additionally accused, along with a woman, Laterria Tishawn Byrd, 19, of Coffeyville, Kansas, and an unindicted juvenile, of conspiring to commit and committing the armed robbery of a branch of the City National Bank & Trust Company of Lawton, Oklahoma, located in the London Square Shopping Center, 5800 South Lewis, Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 7, 2011.

Once again, Patterson and Shobe are accused of recruiting another person, in this instance, a juvenile, and instructing the juvenile how to rob City National Bank and Trust. They are accused of furnishing a firearm, backpack, clothes and a bandana for the juvenile to use to rob the bank. The juvenile went inside the bank, brandished the firearm, demanded and received $4,618 while, Patterson, Shobe and Byrd waited for the juvenile at a nearby apartment complex. Patterson, Shobe and Byrd are charged with Conspiracy and Bank Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon. Patterson and Shobe are also charged with Using, Carrying, and Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence. After the armed robbery was committed by the juvenile, the juvenile met with Patterson, Shobe and Byrd, turning over the money and the firearm used in the robbery. Patterson and Shobe then drove away with the money and the firearm in one vehicle while the juvenile and Byrd left in a different vehicle.

Armed bank robbery is punishable by up to 25 years imprisonment and the charge of brandishing a firearm in committing a bank robbery carries a mandatory consecutive sentence of 7 years imprisonment. A Felon in Possession of a Firearm carries a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment. Conspiracy carries a maximum prison term of 5 years.

Tulsa Man Charged with Failure to Register as Sex Offender

TULSA, Oklahoma – Gary Whitt, 50, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was charged in an indictment alleging his Failure to Register as a Sex Offender from August 2011 until January 5, 2012. Whitt had previously been convicted of two counts of Aggravated Child Molestation in the Superior Court, Troup County, Georgia in 1989. It is alleged that he had traveled from another state to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and had failed to register as a convicted sex offender.

Man Charged With Possessing Firearm After Four Previous Felony Convictions

TULSA, Oklahoma – Michael Lamont Phillips, 31, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is alleged to have possessed a Smith & Wesson revolver and 4 rounds of ammunition on November 12, 2011, after previously being convicted on 3 felony charges in Muskogee County District Court in 2004, which included: 1) Attempted Robbery by Force or Fear; 2) Assault and/or Battery with a Dangerous Weapon; and 3) Intimidation of Witness; and one charge of a Felon in Possession of Firearm and Ammunition, in Federal Court in the Northern District of Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005.

Two Aliens Indicted For Reentering The United States Without Consent After Previous Deportation

TULSA, Oklahoma – Two aliens were charged in separate Federal indictments with being found in the Northern District of Oklahoma after each had previously been removed and deported from the United States and not obtaining the express consent of the Secretary of Homeland Security before reentering this country. On December 12, 2011, Lenin Cuevas-Ramirez, 29, a citizen of Mexico, was identified while working at a manufacturing plant in the Northern District of Oklahoma, after he had been removed and deported at or near Laredo, Texas, on November 16, 2006. On November 18, 2006, Manuel Enrique Perez-Gonzalez, 39, a citizen of Mexico, was identified through a traffic citation issued to him in Tulsa, Oklahoma in July 2010, after he had been removed and deported at or near Del Rio, Texas on August 26, 2008. The crime carries a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.

Sealed and Superseding Indictments
Eight additional indictments and a superseding indictment were returned by the Grand Jury that remain sealed.

 

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