COLUMBUS, Ohio – Dashawn Anthony Starnes, 27, of Columbus,
was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 204 months in prison for four charges
related to armed bank robbery.
Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the
Southern District of Ohio, Trevor Velinor, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Angela L. Byers, Special Agent
in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cincinnati Division, Columbus
Police Chief Kim Jacobs, Springfield Police Chief Stephen P. Moody and
Baltimore Police Chief Michael W. Tussey
announced the sentence handed down today by Chief U.S. District Judge
Edmund A. Sargus, Jr.
According to the statement of facts, Starnes acted as the
getaway driver and/or participated in two armed robberies in the summer of
2015.
On June 30, 2015, Starnes drove Lawrence W. Bell, Jr., 32,
of Columbus, to the Fifth Third Bank on Tuttle Road in Springfield, Ohio for
the purpose of committing a robbery. On August 18, 2015, Starnes and Bell
robbed the Peoples Bank on North Main Street in Baltimore, Ohio. Starnes
brandished a pistol at tellers while committing the bank robbery.
Starnes pleaded guilty in March to two counts of bank
robbery and two counts of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of
violence. Agents arrested Starnes on October 4, 2017. He has been in custody
since his arrest.
Bell also robbed the First Service Credit Union on East Main
Street in Reynoldsburg on June 17, 2015 and brandished a pistol at tellers. He
was sentenced in May and also received a term of imprisonment of 17 years.
U.S. Attorney Glassman commended the cooperative
investigation by law enforcement, as well as Assistant United States Attorney
Timothy Prichard, who is representing the United States in this case.
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