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Baltimore resident Dexter Nikoe Eaton was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for armed bank robbery, related to a series of bank and armed commercial robberies.
According to his plea agreement, Eaton admitted to committing six separate robberies between June 3, 2022, and July 30, 2022, during which he made several murder threats.
The spree began at a bank in the 3200 block of West North Avenue in Baltimore, when he slipped the teller a note demanding money and threatened to kill their family if they failed to comply.
Less than a week later, Eaton attempted to rob a check cashing and financial services business located in the 1600 block of West North Avenue, though this time, the teller refused to read the note, activating an alarm instead.
Eaton then fled from the area.
Investigators the note passed by Eaton, which again demanded money and threatened to kill the family of the employee if Eaton’s demands were not met.
One day later, on June 10, 2022, armed with a handgun, Eaton walked into a bank branch in the 3200 block of West North Avenue wearing a black head covering and a surgical mask and pointed the gun at customers and employees stating, “Nobody move ... Give me $4,000 or everyone in this b---h is dead.”
Prosecutors say that he then forced a patron to the ground at gunpoint and took their wallet and cash.
With the gun still pointed at the customer’s head, Eaton demanded that an employee get him $4,000 or he would shoot the customer, to which she complied, "fearing for her safety."
Court documents said that on June 27, once again armed with a handgun, Eaton robbed a bank in the 4700 block of Liberty Heights Avenue in Baltimore, pointing a gun at the security guard’s head and forcing him to accompany Eaton to the teller window, where a customer was conducting a transaction.
"With the gun still at the security guard’s head, Eaton demanded that the teller give him $7,000 or $8,000 and threatened to shoot the security guard and the customer if the teller did not give him money or pushed any alarms."
Eaton again made off after taking the cash, though his spree was coming to an end, when he robbed two businesses in the 3100 block of West North Avenue on July 23, 2022, and July 30, 2022.
In both robberies, Eaton held employees at gunpoint and demanded money, threatening an employee in the second robbery for moving too slow.
The employees in both robberies gave Eaton cash and he left the stores.
Eaton pleaded guilty to armed bank robbery in February.
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