Beford Man Sentenced for Conducting Bank Robbery

CONCORD, NH—Jonathan Talbot, 27, of Bedford, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire 41 months in prison for engaging in a bank robbery, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.

On May 30, 2013, the Manchester Police Department responded to Citizens Bank at 2035 Brown Avenue for a report of a robbery. Upon arrival, a bank teller indicated that she was working at her station when a Caucasian male, who appeared to be in his mid-30s and approximately 5’5” tall, 140 pounds, wearing a short-sleeved white buttoned-down shirt, gray beret, and eyeglasses, entered the bank and walked over to a table, which contained blank deposit slips while speaking on a cell phone. He wrote on a slip, walked to her station, and handed her a deposit slip that stated, “All unmarked bills. I have a gun give back note. Be calm.” The teller gave Talbot of the currency from her register.

Talbot left the bank in a gray Audi. Following the robbery, law enforcement determined that the 2003 silver Audi A4 was registered to Jonathan Talbot of Bedford, New Hampshire. At 3:50 p.m. on May 30, 2013, approximately one hour after the robbery, law enforcement traveled to Talbot’s residence.

A search warrant was obtained for the 2003 Gray Audi A4, and law enforcement recovered a black plastic framed pair of eyeglasses. A search warrant was also obtained for the residence, and seized from Jonathan Talbot’s bedroom closet was a backpack that was found to contain the white shirt, hat, shorts, and shoes worn during the robbery. Also recovered from within the backpack was $4,268 in $50, $20, $10, $5, and $1 denominations.

The case was investigated by the Manchester, New Hampshire Police Department; the Bedford, New Hampshire Police Department; and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Terry L. Ollila.