Work Release Escapee Pleads Guilty to Bank Robbery Defendant Pleads Guilty to Escape and Bank Robbery in Medford

MEDFORD, OR—Ronald Allan Green, 46, of Medford, Oregon, pled guilty in federal court on Tuesday to the October 8, 2007 escape from the Jackson County Work Release Detention Center and to the March 17, 2008 robbery of a Medford, Oregon branch of Washington Mutual Bank. During his plea hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark E. Clarke, Green admitted that he robbed the bank of $8,820 by intimidating bank employees. Green also acknowledged having prior convictions for other crimes of violence including a bank robbery in Oregon and burglaries in Oregon and Texas, thereby qualifying him as a Career Offender under federal sentencing guidelines. The sentencing hearing has been scheduled for August 24, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. before U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner.

It is alleged that Green committed three other bank robberies in California and five bank robberies in Nevada while he was an escapee from the Work Release Center. He was ultimately captured by the U.S. Marshal in Florence, Oregon. Green will be scheduled to plead guilty to the California and Nevada robbery charges when those cases are transferred to the District of Oregon.

These cases were investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Medford Police Department and the U.S. Marshall. Assistant United States Attorney Byron Chatfield is prosecuting the cases.