MADISON, WIS. – Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for
the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jay’Von Flemming, 25,
Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D.
Peterson for armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during the
robbery. Flemming was sentenced to 14
years on the bank robbery charge plus a consecutive seven years in federal
prison for brandishing a gun during the robbery of the Stoughton Home Savings
Bank in Stoughton, Wisconsin, on October 17, 2017.
Flemming pleaded guilty to these charges on April 10,
2018. As part of the plea agreement,
Flemming also admitted that he robbed the Bank Mutual in Portage, Wisconsin on
September 27, 2017, and that firearms were brandished during that robbery.
Flemming was one of two men who entered the Home Savings
Bank in Stoughton on October 17, pointed guns at the bank tellers, and demanded
money. While in a vehicle after leaving
the bank, they were observed and pursued by a Dane County Sheriff’s deputy as
they headed toward Madison. During the
pursuit on the Beltline Highway in Madison, they attempted to elude police
while driving at speeds over 100 miles per hour, and crashed the vehicle near
Seminole highway. Both suspects were
apprehended after a brief foot chase. The money taken in the Home Savings
robbery and firearms were recovered from the abandoned vehicle.
On July 12, 2018, the second suspect, Kenny Furdge was also
sentenced to 14 years on the bank robbery charge plus a consecutive seven years
in federal prison for brandishing a gun during the robbery of the Stoughton
Home Savings Bank.
In sentencing Flemming, Judge Peterson expressed concern for
the need to protect the public from Flemming’s long criminal history of violent
and disruptive conduct beginning when Flemming was a juvenile. Judge Peterson also considered the innocent
victims seriously traumatized by the armed bank robberies and the high speed
chase as further dangerous behavior demonstrating the need to protect the
public from Flemming’s conduct by incarcerating him for a significant period.
Judge Peterson also ordered Flemming to pay restitution for
the money taken in the Portage robbery that was never recovered.
The charges against Jay’Von Flemming were the result of an
investigation conducted by the Stoughton Police Department, Dane County
Sheriff’s Department, Portage Police Department, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The prosecution of the case has been handled
by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert A. Anderson.
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