San Diego Man Arrested and Charged with Robbing Wells Fargo Bank

San Diego FBI Special Agent in Charge Keith Slotter announces the arrest of Fuller Jones age 45, of San Diego, California, on Thursday, August 19, 2010.

Jones was arrested on Thursday, August 19, 2010, following the robbery of the Wells Fargo Bank, located at 685 Saturn Blvd., San Diego, California.

On Friday, August 20, 2010, a criminal complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, charging Jones with robbing the Wells Fargo Bank, located at 685 Saturn Blvd., San Diego, on Thursday, August 19, 2010. According to the complaint, Jones approached a bank employee and advised that he wanted to close his two savings accounts. The teller advised Jones that he needed to speak with a banker at the desk across the lobby. After speaking with this employee Jones was refunded his money.

After receiving the money, Jones requested to speak with a manager. Jones advised the bank employee that he had a bomb in the fanny pack he was carrying. Jones told the employee if he did not receive two million dollars within the next 10 minutes, his co-conspirator outside the bank would detonate the bomb. The bank employee went to the vault, retrieved a sum of money and provided the money to Jones.

As Jones exited the bank, he was taken into custody by responding San Diego Police Officers.

Jones has been booked into the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) and expected to appear before a U.S. Magistrate Judge, on Tuesday, August 24, 2010.

If anyone has information concerning this robbery they are asked to contact the FBI at telephone number (858) 565-1255. This case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

An arrest itself is not evidence that the defendant committed crimes charged. The defendant is presumed innocent until the government meets its burden in court of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.