Paul Scovronski, Armed Bank Robbery, Maryland 2016

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – Paul Scovronski, 28, of Wintersville, Ohio, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm in connection with two Maryland bank robberies, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.

According to his guilty plea, on March 11, 2016, Scovronski robbed a bank in the 15000 block of Old Frederick Road in Woodbine, Maryland. Wearing a mask, sunglasses, a sweatshirt with the hood pulled up, and gloves, Scovronski entered the bank waving a .22 caliber revolver, shouted ‘this is a robbery,’ and ordered the customers and bank managers to get on the ground.

Scovronski demanded the teller give him all the money in the drawer and in the vault. The teller gave Scovronski approximately $17,551 from the drawer. Scovronski placed the money in his sweatshirt and a red shopping bag, then ordered the employees to go to a back room and lay down on the ground.

Three witnesses, including an off-duty Anne Arundel County police officer, saw Scovronski leave the bank still wearing his disguise. The officer and another person followed Scovronski through a field next to the bank. Scovronski saw that he was being followed and began to run, jumping a fence to get away. A large amount of stolen cash dropped as Scovronski jumped the fence and began blowing in the wind all over the road.

Around $8,460 was eventually recovered from the road. Scovronski headed toward a silver four-door car parked on the side of the road, still being followed by the officer. The off-duty officer drew his weapon and ordered Scovronski to stop. Scovronski pulled out a loaded revolver and pointed it in the air, as he opened the driver-side door of the car with the other hand.

Scovronski got into the car and drove away. The officer described the getaway vehicle to investigators, and a Maryland State Police trooper stopped the vehicle, which was traveling westbound on Route 70. The car was subsequently searched, and law enforcement recovered the sweatshirt, gloves, and mask Scovronski wore during the robbery, the loaded revolver, and $4,917 in cash, some of which still had the bank bands on it.

As part of his guilty plea, Scovronski also admitted that on February 19, 2016, he robbed a bank in the 12000 block of Chestnut Branch Way in Clarksburg, Maryland. In that robbery, Scovronski demanded money from the teller and kept his right hand inside his jacket, implying that he had a weapon. Scovronski stole approximately $8,000.

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