Mexican National Charged with Robbing Four Banks in Santa Fe

Dept Of Justice ^ | May 18, 2012 | U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Mexico

[Larry381]

ALBUQUERQUE—This morning, Jaime Jesus Sanchez-Ramos, 22, a Mexican national, was arraigned on a federal indictment charging him with four counts of bank robbery. Sanchez-Ramos entered a not guilty plea to the indictment. Sanchez-Ramos has been in federal custody since his arrest on April 10, 2012 and remains detained pending trial.

The indictment charges Sanchez-Ramos with robbing the following four banks in Santa Fe, New Mexico, earlier this year: (1) the Century Bank located at 1790 Saint Michael’s Drive on January 26, 2012; (2) the New Mexico Bank and Trust located at 1549 Paseo de Peralta on February 15, 2012; (3) the Bank of Albuquerque located at 706 Saint Michael’s Drive on March 16, 2012; and (4) the U.S. Bank located at 3787 Cerrillos Road on April 2, 2012. The maximum penalty for a conviction on each of the four offenses if 20 years of imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.

Court records reflect that Sanchez-Ramos was arrested following the April 2, 2012 bank robbery of the U.S. Bank. After that robbery, the Santa Fe Police Department received a report that an employee of a home improvement store had retrieved evidence of the bank robbery, including a large amount of currency still bundled with U.S. Bank wrappers after observing a man put something into a trash can that was in the store’s parking lot. Armed with photographs taken by the store’s surveillance camera and a tip received by the FBI, law enforcement officers were able to identify Sanchez-Ramos as the man who allegedly robbed the U.S. Bank on April 2, 2012.

The case was investigated by the FBI and Santa Fe Police Department and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Paige Messec.

[Larry381]

Just robbing the banks Americans won't rob...

[Doogle]

"...puts a new light on the term "picking lettuce"

[FlingWingFlyer]

I imagine he has been watching the boob tube and has heard how 99% of Americans hate banks so he thought that he was doing us a big favor. Something that would get him on “the superhighway to citizenship”.

[GeronL]

I guess he isn’t a “white hispanic”?

[muawiyah]

It's possible he thought all Mexicans look alike to Americans and he would blend easily into the local population and just disappear.

Surprise! Mexicans look different in Santa Fe!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

If Obama had a Mexican son, he’d look just like Sanchez.

“Hey, he was just financing his way through college”, Gringo.

[Safetgiver]

The case was investigated by the FBI and Santa Fe Police Department...If it is a federal crime (like being an illegal alien) what is the Santa Fe PD doing investigating it? Let the Feds do it.