Harvey Man Sentenced For Multiple Robberies

NEW ORLEANS – SAMUEL TAYLOR (“TAYLOR”), age 25, of Harvey, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, was sentenced today to 198 months in the Bureau of Prisons to be followed by a term of five (5) years of supervised release for Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1951(a), Bank Robbery with a Firearm in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2113(a) and (d), Conspiracy to Commit Bank Robbery with a Firearm in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371, 2113(a) and (d), and two counts of Brandishing a Firearm during a Crime of Violence, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c), announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.

On the morning of Wednesday, September 27, 2017, members of the New Orleans Police Department responded to a complaint of an active burglary of a residence in uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. Police entered the residence, and discovered TAYLOR and his two co-defendants inside of the residence.  Law enforcement officers also located a loaded Harrington and Richardson “Pardner” Pump 12 gauge shotgun and a Taurus .38 caliber revolver handgun in the residence, as well as homemade ski masks. 

Law enforcement agents determined TAYLOR and the other defendants were using the residence as a safe house in anticipation of an armed robbery of a bank on South Carrollton Avenue in New Orleans.  Agents also determined that TAYLOR had been responsible for the September 7, 2017, armed robbery of the Fidelity Bank on General De Gaulle Boulevard, in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans, as well as the July 9, 2017, armed robbery of the Dollar General store in Avondale, Louisiana.

U.S. Attorney Strasser praised the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Violent Crime Task Force, officers with the New Orleans Police Department, and deputies with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office. The prosecution of was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Myles Ranier.