Maryland Man Who Robbed Two Iowa Convenience Stores Sentenced to Federal Prison

A man who was previously convicted of robbing the Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust on January 3, 2024, was sentenced on November 14, 2025, to nearly three years in federal prison after convictions for robbing two convenience stores.

Andrew Philip Derr, age 23, from Fredrick, Maryland, received the prison term after a June 24, 2025, guilty plea to robbing two convenience stores and one count of money laundering.

In a plea agreement, Derr admitted that after being discharged from the military for misconduct in 2023, he moved to Iowa City and conducted a series of robberies in the Cedar Rapids area.  Derr admitted that, on December 27, 2023, he robbed the Casey’s General Store in Robins and obtained over $7,000 in cash and other merchandise.  On January 1, 2024, he robbed the Kum & Go store on Four Oaks Drive in Cedar Rapids.  Derr was previously convicted and sentenced in state court for robbing the Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust branch on Council Street in Cedar Rapids on January 3, 2024, stealing over $16,000 in cash.  Derr admitted that after each robbery he laundered the stolen funds by making multiple deposits into his Maryland Bank account to disguise the nature, source, and ownership of the funds.  On January 3, 2024, Derr flew to Maryland, and subsequently made two deposits of robbery proceeds totaling more than $4,800. 

When the United States Marshals Service tried to arrest Derr at his Iowa City apartment, they found a note stating, “Catch me if you can.”  As a result of the United States Marshals Service efforts to apprehend him, Derr turned himself into the Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Sheriff’s Office on January 12, 2024.        

Derr was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams.  Derr was sentenced to 34 months and 29 days’ imprisonment.  This prison term was imposed concurrently with the remainder of Derr’s state prison sentence for the bank robbery.  The court ordered Derr to pay $7,359.89 in restitution to Casey’s, $308.20 to Kum & Go, and $16,705 to Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust.  He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term.  There is no parole in the federal system.

The United States Marshals Service is holding Derr in custody until he can be transported back to the Iowa prison system to continue serving his state prison sentence.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Patrick J. Reinert and was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, the United States Marshals Service’s Northern Iowa Fugitive Task Force, the Cedar Rapids Police Department, Robins Police Department, Linn County Attorney’s Office, the University of Iowa Police Department, and the Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Sheriff’s Office.  

Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. 

The case file number is 24-CR-00105.

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