OAKLAND — A Bay Space man has been charged with robbing 4 banks across the East Bay, simply six months after he was launched from federal jail for the same crime spree, courtroom data present.
Phillip LeBlanc, 39, was indicted final month on costs of robbing banks in Dublin, Berkeley, and two in Walnut Creek, and is charged individually for violating the phrases of his post-conviction supervised launch. He stays in federal custody on a no-bail maintain, data present.
Again in 2018, LeBlanc pleaded responsible to robbing two banks in San Francisco and one in Oakland. He was sentenced the next yr to 4 years in jail and ordered to pay again the $11,118 he stole, courtroom data present. On the time, his legal professional requested U.S. District Decide Maxine Chesney to not over-sentence LeBlanc for “a brief sequence of very unhealthy selections on Mr. LeBlanc’s half in an in any other case law-abiding life.”
“There isn't a indication that Mr. LeBlanc will re-offend or that a prolonged sentence is critical to include him or take away him from society,” assistant public defender Elizabeth Falk wrote in a sentencing temporary.
LeBlanc was launched from jail on Jan. 13, data present.
This time round, prosecutors allege LeBlanc dedicated 4 separate robberies across the East Bay “on or about” Aug. 30, in keeping with the indictment. They are saying he made off with a complete of $778, together with one theft that solely netted him $48 in money, and one theft that was unsuccessful.
Prosecutors haven't but revealed how LeBlanc was tied to all 4 robberies, however they did say he was arrested in Walnut Creek after robbing or trying to rob two banks there. At round 1:45 p.m. on Aug. 30, he robbed a Mechanics Financial institution in Walnut Creek for $610 after an “unsuccessful try” to rob the Union Financial institution, prosecutors wrote in courtroom data.
“Walnut Creek Police Division officers positioned Mr. LeBlanc three blocks away from Mechanics Financial institution and arrested him,” prosecutors wrote in a petition to revoke LeBlanc’s supervised launch.
In his 2018 conviction, prosecutors alleged that LeBlanc had additionally set a girl up for a theft and held her up with a toy gun, along with the financial institution heists, and that he’d put all of his victims in perceived life-or-death conditions.
“Throughout every financial institution theft, LeBlanc both possessed a harmful weapon or gave the teller a observe saying that he had a gun,” assistant U.S. Lawyer wrote in a sentencing memo.