Suspect in bank robbery indicted

Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2005 | 9:59 a.m.

A 21-year-old man arrested hours after a bank robbery that left one woman customer injured from a gunshot earlier this month has been indicted by a federal grand jury.

Jeremy Jermain Suggs was indicted Tuesday for armed bank robbery, and possession and discharge of a firearm during a violent crime.

The criminal complaint said that Suggs entered a Wells Fargo Bank at Eastern Avenue near Tropicana Avenue about 9:41 a.m. on Aug. 3 and waited with other customers until he reached a teller.

After placing a deposit slip and a wallet on the counter, Suggs pulled a silver handgun from his waistband and grabbed a 13-year-old boy, putting the gun to the boy's head, the complaint alleged.

The bank robber then ordered everyone to the floor and fired a shot into the ceiling.

The robber continued to hold the gun to the boy's head, demanding money, then fired another shot from the pistol, striking a woman in the back. She was taken to a local hospital and is expected to recover.

As he ran out of the bank, the robber left his wallet and a deposit slip with his name written on it.

Suggs was arrested later that same day.

If convicted, Suggs faces up to 25 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on the bank robbery charge and not less than 10 years in prison to run consecutive to any other punishment imposed on the firearm charge, said Daniel G. Bogden, U.S. attorney for Nevada.

Suggs is scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lawrence Leavitt on Aug. 26 at 8:30 a.m. for arraignment and to enter his plea to the charges.