Bangor Man Sentenced to Six Years for Bank Robbery

BANGOR, ME—United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Donald Turner, 40, of Bangor, was sentenced today by Judge D. Brock Hornby in U.S. District Court in Bangor, Maine to six years of imprisonment and three years of supervised release. Turner was also ordered to pay restitution to the Bangor Savings Bank. Turner pleaded guilty on June 24, 2011, to bank robbery. The defendant was on federal supervised release at the time of the bank robbery and that release was revoked as a result of his new criminal conduct. The court ordered that the six-year sentence of imprisonment on the bank robbery be served consecutively to a two-year sentence on the supervised release revocation for a total sentence of eight years.

Court records reveal that on March 5, 2011, the defendant entered the Bangor Savings Bank and handed a teller a note that said: “this is a robbery, no dye packs, no alarms.” The note also demanded cash and claimed “there is a bomb in the envelope.” As the teller finished reading the note, the defendant slid a manila envelope toward her. The defendant directed her to place the money in his checkbook; she gave him the money from her drawer. The defendant left the bank and was arrested two days later on a warrant issued for violating his supervised release. The Bangor Police Department’s bomb squad x-rayed and searched the manila envelope and found wires but no explosive device.

The investigation was conducted by the Bangor Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.