OKLAHOMA CITY — A Clinton man, Ronald DeYoung Allen, 44, was sentenced to 24 years in prison for bank robbery and illegally possessing a firearm after a prior felony conviction, U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester announced.
A federal grand jury sitting in the Western District of Oklahoma returned a one-count indictment against Allen in June 2021 that charged him with being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm; federal law prohibits convicted felons from possessing a firearm. Then a separate count filed against Allen in March 2022 charged him with robbing the Security State Bank in Hammon on July 22, 2020.
According to public records, Allen walked into the bank while wielding a firearm and disguised as a woman. During the robbery, Allen dropped a Kleenex-type tissue and law enforcement collected it for DNA testing.
More than six months later, on February 7, 2021, Allen was involved in a vehicle collision in Snyder where law enforcement found him in possession of a gun. After the crash, the FBI collected a sample of Allen’s DNA and sent it to the FBI laboratory; the examination confirmed Allen’s DNA was on the tissue recovered in the Security State Bank robbery.
During a March 29 hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Jodi W. Dishman sentenced Allen to serve 100 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and 188 months in prison for the bank robbery. Dishman ordered those sentences to run consecutively. Additionally, those sentences were ordered to run consecutively to a separate, unrelated armed robbery conviction from 2021 in Oklahoma County for which Allen is serving a 12-year sentence in state prison.
In support of Allen’s federal sentence, Judge Dishman cited, among other things, the serious nature of the offense, Allen’s lengthy criminal history involving previous armed robberies in Custer and Oklahoma counties, and the significant effect the holdup had on the three tellers confronted in the bank robbery. Dishman also ordered Allen to pay $194,500 in restitution to the bank.
Allen has been detained in federal custody since August 10, 2021.
These cases were the result of investigations by the Oklahoma City FBI Field Office, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, and the Snyder Police Department, Troester said.