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Northern District of Texas

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SERIAL BANK ROBBER SENTENCED TO 87 MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON, WITHOUT PAROLE

Defendant Also Faces Murder Charge in Collin County

Caster Deryl Chatman, Jr., a/k/a “Cash” and “Junior,” was sentenced today to 87 months imprisonment by the Honorable A. Joe Fish, United States Chief District Judge, announced United States Attorney Richard B. Roper. Chatman pled guilty in July to robbing numerous banks in the Dallas area in November and December 2005.

Chatman, age 23, of Lancaster, Texas, pled guilty to six counts of bank robbery as outlined in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Dallas on February 23, 2006. Chatman also judicially stipulated that he robbed six additional banks Chatman surrendered to law enforcement on February 26, 2006 and was immediately arrested by Plano, Texas, police in connection with the February 25, 2006 shooting death of a Plano man. Chatman’s 87 month federal sentence was ordered to run consecutive or stacked with any sentence he may receive in the Collin County murder case.

Chatman committed the following bank robberies:

• November 7, 2005 First Convenience Bank
313 E. Pioneer Parkway, Grand Prairie, Texas

• November 7, 2005 Bank of America
1228 N. Masters, Dallas, Texas

• November 14, 2005 Bank of America
4101 W. Wheatland Road, Dallas, Texas

• November 17, 2005 Bank of America
5400 N. Macarthur, Irving, Texas

• November 17, 2005 Bank of America
7300 N. Macarthur, Irving, Texas

• December 6, 2005 Bank of America
1300 W. Beltline, Desoto, Texas

• December 9, 2005 Bank of America
4101 W. Wheatland Road, Desoto, Texas

• December 10, 2005 Bank of America
4126 S. Carrier Parkway, Grand Prairie, Texas

• December 10, 2005 Bank of America
427 E. F.M. 1382, Cedar Hill, Texas

• December 13, 2005 Wells Fargo Bank
3757 Forest Lane, Dallas, Texas

• December 15, 2005 Wells Fargo Bank
14999 Preston Road, Dallas, Texas

• December 16, 2005 Chase Bank
Grand Prairie, Texas

• December 16, 2005 Wells Fargo Bank
1380 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas

• December 30, 2005 Chase Bank
10803 Preston Road, Dallas, Texas

An accomplice of Chatman’s in several of the bank robberies, Aaron Wade Doss, pled guilty in April 2006 to three counts of bank robbery and was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $41,766.00 restitution.

Chatman and an accomplice known as the “Ms. December Bandit,” a 16-year-old female currently being held in the Dallas County Juvenile Detention Facility, committed eight bank robberies between December 6 and December 30, 2005. She was arrested on December 30, 2005 following the robbery of the Chase Bank on Preston Road and was certified as an adult in Dallas County in March 2006. She faces multiple State bank robbery charges. Chatman admitted that he and this female agreed to assist each other in robbing several banks in and around Dallas. Chatman would pick up this female from high school and they would go rob banks. Generally the female would enter the bank and approach a teller, handing the teller a note demanding money and stating that she had a gun. She would depart the banks with the money, meet Chatman outside the bank, then they would depart the bank together and Chatman would return her back to school. She and Chatman split the proceeds from the robberies.

U.S. Attorney Roper praised the investigative efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Dallas, Richardson, Grand Prairie, Cedar Hill, Desoto, Irving and Plano Police Departments. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Rick Calvert.

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