Eric Dior Warren, 50, drove used a loaner car from a BMW dealership to rob a bank and then tried to buy BMW from the stolen money was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
According to the court, Warren was about to finalize the purchase of a BMW in 2019 when he went to rob the bank. He went into a bank, walked up to a teller, and put a bag with a note on the counter. The note read:
“This is a fucking robbery. Play with me and die. I want $10,000 in $50 and $100 bills now you got 1 minute or I will kill you.”
After showing the note to the teller, Warren pulled out what looked like a handgun and said, “I ain’t playing around, I only want 100s and 50s.”
Eric Dion Warren (Credit: Lubbock County Detention Center)
The teller handed over the money, which included several piles of $20 bills with traceable serial numbers. “Don’t push any buttons,” Warren told the clerk, before fleeing the scene with the money.
The U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement: “Mr. Warren admitted to driving away in a vehicle that had been loaned to him by a car dealership, while the sale of a black BMW was being finalized.”
Warren then drove the car back to the car dealership, where he had been in the process of buying a black BMW.
“Mr. Warren began waving the cash that he had illegally obtained from the bank robbery at employees in the car dealership.” Said the prosecutors. Documents say, he took the money to the financing office and tried to put down a $3,000 deposit on the BMW.
The fraudulent financing quickly went south for Warren, when authorities called the car dealership 15 called the dealership to report the robbery and the car while Warren was working out the sale, and an employee quickly put the scheme together and called the police.
Warren was arrested with $5,086 traceable cash. The police also found a pellet gun from Warren which was painted to look like a real weapon.
The U.S. attorney’s office said, “Law enforcement also recovered a painted pellet gun, resembling a real handgun, approximately 10 feet (3.048m) away from Mr. Warren at the time of his arrest.”
Warren pleaded guilty to a charge of bank robbery in August 2020.
A U.S. district judge gave him the statutory maximum sentence of 20 years on March 9, 2021.
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