Douglas Randall Phillips, Bank Robbery, Maryland 2023

A brazen bank robber who struck twice in Hunt Valley and Baltimore has been sentenced to 151 months in federal prison, the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland announced.

Douglas Randall Phillips, 58, of Baltimore, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte for federal charges of bank robbery and violation of his federal supervised release from a prior bank robbery conviction.

Phillips was ordered to pay restitution in the full amount of the victim's loss.

The sentence was announced by United States Attorney Robert K. Hur; Special Agent in Charge Jennifer C. Boone of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office; Chief Melissa R. Hyatt of the Baltimore County Police Department; and Commissioner Michael Harrison of the Baltimore Police Department.

According to his plea agreement, on December 13, 2019, Phillips entered a bank located in the 11000 block of York Road in Hunt Valley, Maryland and approached a teller. Phillips handed the teller a note which read, 'This is a robbery, I have a gun and will begin shooting unless you give me all loose 100's, 50's + 20's immediately.'

Phillips obtained more than $700 from the teller and fled the branch on foot. After this incident, the bank circulated an internal alert amongst its employees, which included an image of Phillips from the bank's surveillance camera footage from December 13, 2019.

On December 18, 2019, Phillips entered a different branch of the same bank in Baltimore, Maryland to make a withdrawal from his own account. The bank employees at this branch recognized Phillips from the internal bank alert and called police. Phillips was arrested and the clothes he was wearing at the time of his arrest were the same clothes worn by the robber in the surveillance footage from the December 13, 2019 robbery.

At the time that Phillips committed the December 13, 2019, bank robbery Phillips knew he was on supervised release for a previous federal bank robbery conviction. Committing the December 13th robbery violated the conditions of his supervised release.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/baltimore-bank-robber-sentenced-more-12-years-federal-prison