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Feds: Army ranger charged in Tacoma bank robbery is missing
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Federal prosecutors say a former Army Ranger who masterminded the takeover robbery of a Tacoma bank last summer has gone missing while under house arrest in Canada.
Luke E. Sommer, who has dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship, was supposed be staying with his mother in British Columbia while he fought extradition.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Dion says that according to the Royal Canadian Mountain Police, Sommer took off sometime Thursday.
Authorities say Sommer and three other men - one other Fort Lewis soldier and two Canadian friends - stormed a Bank of America branch last August, wearing ski masks and brandishing handguns and automatic AK-47s. They took $54,000 during the 90-second robbery.
In all, seven people have been charged in the investigation - five of them soldiers. The soldiers include getaway driver Alex Blum; robbery participant Chad Palmer; Scott Byrne, who helped plan the robbery; and Richard Oliniger, charged with storing automatic weapons and hand grenades for Sommer. All of the soldiers except Sommer have pleaded guilty to at least some of the crimes they were charged with.
Feds: Army ranger charged in Tacoma bank robbery is missing
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Federal prosecutors say a former Army Ranger who masterminded the takeover robbery of a Tacoma bank last summer has gone missing while under house arrest in Canada.
Luke E. Sommer, who has dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship, was supposed be staying with his mother in British Columbia while he fought extradition.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Dion says that according to the Royal Canadian Mountain Police, Sommer took off sometime Thursday.
Authorities say Sommer and three other men - one other Fort Lewis soldier and two Canadian friends - stormed a Bank of America branch last August, wearing ski masks and brandishing handguns and automatic AK-47s. They took $54,000 during the 90-second robbery.
In all, seven people have been charged in the investigation - five of them soldiers. The soldiers include getaway driver Alex Blum; robbery participant Chad Palmer; Scott Byrne, who helped plan the robbery; and Richard Oliniger, charged with storing automatic weapons and hand grenades for Sommer. All of the soldiers except Sommer have pleaded guilty to at least some of the crimes they were charged with.