Man, 72, Convicted of Attempted Bank Robbery in Abilene | USAO-NDTX

A 72 12 months-old El Paso person was observed responsible of tried financial institution robbery on Tuesday, announced U.S. Legal professional for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.

Just after two times of demo and just two hrs of deliberation, a federal jury in Lubbock convicted James Earl Eco-friendly, Jr. of attempted financial institution theft.

In accordance to evidence offered at trial, at approximately 7:40 a.m. on Sept. 24, 2019, Mr. Green accosted a To start with State Bank employee as she was attempting to enter the lender for opening.

Mr. Inexperienced held a handgun to the employee’s head and pushed her inside of the lender, wherever he held her for around 20 minutes. In the course of that time, surveillance video caught the defendant on digicam pacing back again and forth with an identifiable limp.

A next lender staff arrived at 7:57 a.m., and a wrestle ensued. (Download surveillance footage here.) Throughout the melee, Mr. Green struck the initially personnel on the head with his handgun. He then fled on foot without having getting any revenue, leaving his two duffel baggage guiding.

An nameless tipster notified the Abilene Law enforcement Department that a gold Cadillac had been parked throughout the road from the financial institution the early morning prior to the robbery. Regulation enforcement then identified the Cadillac – a 4 doorway sedan with its front suitable hub cap address lacking – in surveillance movie pulled from the bank’s vicinity. An staff of the City of Abilene narrowed down gold Cadillacs from a listing of far more than 11,000 to locate a matching gold Cadillac belonging to Mr. Eco-friendly.  

Immediately after finding out that Mr. Inexperienced lived in El Paso, officers achieved out to an person there that understood him, who reviewed the lender surveillance video and famous that the robber in the online video walked in a comparable fashion to Mr. Green, who wore a prosthetic leg. She also shared a image of Mr. Green’s Cadillac, which was gold and lacking its entrance suitable hub cap deal with.

Meanwhile, the Texas Office of General public Safety’s Crime Lab extracted a DNA profile from the duffel bag, ran it through the FBI’s Mixed DNA Index System (CODIS), and discovered a match to a sample from Mr. Eco-friendly.  Additionally, a member of the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Study Workforce obtained historic mobile mobile phone facts from Mr. Green’s mobile telephone company and positioned Mr. Green’s mobile telephone traveling to Abilene from El Paso times in advance of the attempted lender theft and returning from Abilene to El Paso right away adhering to the attempted robbery.

Mr. Inexperienced now faces up to 20 decades in federal prison. His sentencing has been set for July 21.

The Abilene Law enforcement Division, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas and El Paso Field Places of work, and the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Crime Laboratory done the investigation. Assistant U.S. Lawyers Callie Woolam and Ryan Redd tried out the case. U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix presided over the demo.