Third ATM Solutions Robber Pleads Guilty

ST. LOUIS—The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Larry Newman pled guilty to charges involving the August 2010 armed robbery of ATM Solutions.

Newman, 20, pled guilty to one felony count of armed robbery, one felony count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence involving the robbery, plus one felony count of kidnapping.

According to court documents, in the early morning of August 2, 2010, four individuals, each armed with a firearm, forced their way into ATM Solutions. They announced a robbery and subsequently took over $6 million belonging to ATM. They took the firearms from each of two employees and tied them up after forcing them to assist in placing of the U.S. currency into an ATM van.

The robbers decided that they needed to steal an ATM van, as there was too much money to put into the vehicle that they drove to the robbery. They loaded the ATM van with the currency and drove to into a garage on Page Avenue and emptied the van. Some of the U.S. currency was hidden in the attic there and some was taken to a storage locker. Newman was one of the robbers who received a share of the stolen money, and was told that he would be given more at a later date. The following November, Newman contacted Myron Kimble and Marrion Dotson to help him get more of the stolen money. Thinking that James and Latunya Wright could give him the money, a plan was developed to kidnap two young girls as leverage against the Wrights. Newman, Kimble, and Dotson kidnapped the two girls and eventually made a deal to exchange the girls for $15,000. In the meantime, one of the girls was released unharmed and Kimble was to deliver the second girl in exchange for the money. He was scared off by a passing motorist, took off, was pursued by police and crashed his vehicle and escaped. The other girl was also recovered unharmed.

Marrion Dotson, 33, and Myron Kimble, 22, both of St. Louis, each pled guilty in March to one felony count of kidnapping and one felony count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence involving the kidnapping of the two juvenile females. Kimble also pled to a conspiracy charge. Sentencings have been set for October 2011.

John Wesley Jones, 36, Florissant, MO, pled guilty in January to one felony count of armed robbery, one felony count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, one felony count of being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm, and one felony count of escape from custody, and was sentenced to 32 years in prison in May.

Ryechine Money, 32, St. Louis, pled guilty March 3, to one felony count of armed robbery, one felony count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and was sentenced in May to 19.5 years in prison.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. Assistant United States Attorney Tom Mehan is handling the case for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.