Credit union robbery
OKLAHOMA CITY – An axiom holds that crime doesn’t pay. A suspected bank robber should have heeded the advice.
Keith Lamar Carter, 38, of Oklahoma City, was charged with robbing Credit Union One in Oklahoma City on Dec. 23, 2019. After a hearing March 2, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary Purcell ordered Carter detained pending trial. An affidavit filed in the case relates that an officer at Credit Union One told law enforcement officers a man who ostensibly wanted to open a checking account instead gave her a handwritten note demanding money and claiming, “I do have a bomb.”
The bandit took $2,260 from a teller’s till and fled the scene on a bicycle. After bank surveillance photos were published in the news media and additional investigation was conducted by the FBI and the Oklahoma City Police Department, “law enforcement received information that pointed to Carter” and he was arrested Feb. 13, U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing announced. If found guilty, Carter faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison, three years of supervised release, a fine of $250,000 – 110 times greater than his alleged haul – plus mandatory restitution.