Post by Shuftin on Jul 27, 2006 23:16:20 GMT -5
Indiana Police Officer Clifton Bruce Davidson Jr., Also A Disbarred Attorney, Pleads Guilty To 24 Bank Robberies In 11 States
2006-07-22
ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS -A former Indiana police officer pleaded guilty Friday to 24 bank robberies in Connecticut and 10 other states that netted more than $167,000. Three in Illinois were worth nearly $28,500.
Clifton Bruce Davidson Jr., 41, of Holland, Mich., had been on the FBI's list of most wanted fugitives for seven months before he was taken into custody Jan. 31 in Phoenix and turned over to federal authorities.
He pleaded guilty Friday to three counts of aggravated bank robbery, 21 counts of bank robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, the U.S. attorney's office said in a statement.
In federal court, Davidson admitted to four robberies in Michigan; three each in Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri; two each in Ohio, Tennessee, Maryland and Wisconsin; and one each in Indiana, Iowa and Connecticut between Nov. 12, 2003 and last Nov. 18, prosecutors said.
A message left Friday night for a public defender representing Davidson was not immediately returned.
Davidson is being held by the U.S. Marshals Service until sentencing, which is scheduled for Nov. 17, said U.S. attorney's office spokeswoman Sharon Paul.
Aggravated bank robbery carries up to 25 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, bank robbery carries up to 20 years and a $250,000 fine and brandishing a firearm carries a penalty of seven years to life in prison, which must be served consecutive to any other sentence.
Davidson was fired from the Elkhart, Ind. police force in 1995 for making public statements about an investigation into a police shooting. He later won a defamation suit against the city and then-Mayor James Perron over a 1994 letter to the editor in a local newspaper that alleged Davidson abused unnamed police privileges and was soft on crime.
Davidson became a lawyer, but was disbarred after the Indiana Supreme Court found him guilty of six counts of misconduct in 2004 for taking clients' money for lawsuits that never were filed or on which he did little work.
2006-07-22
ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS -A former Indiana police officer pleaded guilty Friday to 24 bank robberies in Connecticut and 10 other states that netted more than $167,000. Three in Illinois were worth nearly $28,500.
Clifton Bruce Davidson Jr., 41, of Holland, Mich., had been on the FBI's list of most wanted fugitives for seven months before he was taken into custody Jan. 31 in Phoenix and turned over to federal authorities.
He pleaded guilty Friday to three counts of aggravated bank robbery, 21 counts of bank robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, the U.S. attorney's office said in a statement.
In federal court, Davidson admitted to four robberies in Michigan; three each in Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri; two each in Ohio, Tennessee, Maryland and Wisconsin; and one each in Indiana, Iowa and Connecticut between Nov. 12, 2003 and last Nov. 18, prosecutors said.
A message left Friday night for a public defender representing Davidson was not immediately returned.
Davidson is being held by the U.S. Marshals Service until sentencing, which is scheduled for Nov. 17, said U.S. attorney's office spokeswoman Sharon Paul.
Aggravated bank robbery carries up to 25 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, bank robbery carries up to 20 years and a $250,000 fine and brandishing a firearm carries a penalty of seven years to life in prison, which must be served consecutive to any other sentence.
Davidson was fired from the Elkhart, Ind. police force in 1995 for making public statements about an investigation into a police shooting. He later won a defamation suit against the city and then-Mayor James Perron over a 1994 letter to the editor in a local newspaper that alleged Davidson abused unnamed police privileges and was soft on crime.
Davidson became a lawyer, but was disbarred after the Indiana Supreme Court found him guilty of six counts of misconduct in 2004 for taking clients' money for lawsuits that never were filed or on which he did little work.
