Gardiner Resident Charged With Bank Robbery

Contact: F. Todd Lowell
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that
John C. Slater, 66, of Gardiner, Maine, was arrested in New Hampshire and charged in U.S.
District Court in Bangor by criminal complaint with bank robbery. The charge arises from the
June 23, 2014 bank robbery of the Bank of Maine, in Hallowell, Maine.

According to court records, Slater robbed $15,000 from the Bank of Maine after handing
a bank employee a note that read: “Im Here to Rob your Bank, no silent Alarms my cell phone
rings, your all dead, I have a hand grenade, and a gun, no marked bills, or inked, if so, one day I
will come back and kill all of you, do you understand.???’

The defendant will make an initial appearance in the U.S. District Court in Bangor today
at noon.

The defendant faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Maine State
Police, and the Hallowell police department.

A complaint is merely an accusation and a defendant is presumed innocent unless proven
guilty in a court of law.