From staff reports OKLAHOMA CITY– A Texan pleaded guilty in federal district court here April 3 to aiding and abetting an armed bank robbery in Oklahoma City 14 months ago, U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester announced.
A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment March 21, 2023, against Christian Deleon Lane of Dallas, Texas, and two co-defendants, David John-Matthew Davis and Paris Kathryn Mace, both of Omaha, Nebraska, for their roles in a metro bank robbery one month earlier.
According to an affidavit previously filed in support of a criminal complaint, on Feb. 23, 2023, Davis entered a bank in northwest Oklahoma City armed with a pistol. Davis was accused of pointing the firearm at multiple employees and ordering them to open the bank’s vault.
After Davis filled a bag with money, he left the bank in a car that had no license plate. Authorities found the car abandoned in a nearby parking lot, where surveillance video depicted Davis exiting the car and getting into a blue SUV driven by someone else.
The affidavit filed by an FBI special agent further alleged that Mace had rented the blue SUV and that Lane had purchased the abandoned car two days before the robbery. The day after Lane purchased the vehicle, Lane reported to law enforcement that the car was missing and that he believed it had been stolen, but he declined to file a stolen vehicle report.
The affidavit further revealed that surveillance video from an Oklahoma City motel depicted Davis, Lane and Mace interacting with each other days before the robbery.
Lane, 36, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting armed bank robbery, and he admitted purchasing the vehicle later used in furtherance of the crime.
Both Mace, 30, and Davis, 40, previously pleaded guilty in the case. In October 2023 Mace admitted aiding and abetting the armed robbery, and in February 2024 Davis pleaded guilty to armed bank robbery and to possession of a firearm during the holdup.
Each defendant faces punishment up to 25 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, and restitution to the victim bank.
In addition, Davis faces not less than five years in federal prison and up to life imprisonment, along with a $250,000 fine, for possession of the firearm during the bank robbery. Davis’s sentence for the firearm count must be served consecutively to his sentence for the armed robbery.
The case was investigated by the FBI’s Oklahoma City, Dallas and Omaha field offices and the Oklahoma City Police Department.