Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Metairie Man Pleads Guilty to Bank Robbery


U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced that KEITH ANTHONY RAMIREZ, age 34, pled guilty before the United States District Court to a one-count Indictment charging him with bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).

According to court documents, RAMIREZ robbed the Capital One Bank at 830 North Highway 190 in Covington on December 4, 2018.  RAMIREZ faces a sentence of up to twenty years in prison, a period of up to three years of supervised release, a fine of $250,000, and a mandatory $100 special assessment. U.S. District Court Judge Carl J. Barbier set sentencing for RAMIREZ for July 11, 2019 at 9:30 a.m.

U.S. Attorney Strasser praised the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in investigating this matter.  Assistant U. S. Attorney Spiro G. Latsis is in charge of the prosecution.

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