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2011
The robbery: Darius Lamar Jiggetts entered a bank in South Bend — the Seventh Circuit's order in his case, like most of the modern records, does not name the institution — wearing a bandana over his face, pulled a gun from the waistband of his pants, and stole over $12,000.
The disposition: he was identified from television news coverage by the grandmother of a girl thought to be his daughter. When the police found him, his fingers were stained pink from the residue of the dye packs packed in the stolen money, and he was wearing a bracelet visible on the robber in the bank's surveillance video; more than a dozen eyewitnesses testified, and he had confessed to a fellow inmate while awaiting trial. A jury convicted him of bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), and of possessing a firearm during a crime of violence, § 924(c). The district court imposed 171 months — within the guidelines range of 154 to 171 months, the firearm count's eighty-four months consecutive to the robbery's term. His appeal, prosecuted under Anders after his appointed lawyer found no nonfrivolous issue, was dismissed by the Seventh Circuit on April 1, 2013.
Sources:
- United States v. Jiggetts, No. 12-1112 (7th Cir., April 1, 2013) (nonprecedential order; appeal from N.D. Ind., South Bend Division, No. 3:11-CR-00084) — the robbery in South Bend, over $12,000; the television identification; the dye-stained fingers and the bracelet; the jury convictions under §§ 2113(a) and 924(c); the 171-month sentence; the appeal dismissed.