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Odessa Man Pleads Guilty to Robbing Bank

U.S. Attorney’s Office January 15, 2010
  • Western District of Texas (210) 384-7100

United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in Midland, 27-year-old Jerry Dewitt Smith, Jr., faces between seven and 32 years in federal prison after admitting to robbing the Security Bank in Odessa on November 6, 2009.

Appearing before United States Magistrate Judge David Counts this afternoon, Smith pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery and one count of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence. By pleading guilty, Smith admitted that he entered the East 42nd St. branch of the bank at about 9:40 a.m. and robbed, at gunpoint, the bank’s teller of $18,350. Smith remains in federal custody pending sentencing.

The case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Texas Rangers and the Odessa Police Department. Assistant United States Attorney Austin Berry is prosecuting the matter for the Government.

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