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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hi, everyone. My name is Joshua Miles, and I'm guessing
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- 0:34Speaker 3: A string of vicious bank robberies grows more violent with
- 0:41Speaker 3: every hole, then ends in a.
- 0:45Speaker 4: Deadly shoot.
- 0:50Speaker 3: With a dangerous man on the run. Police conduct an
- 0:54Speaker 3: all out search.
- 0:56Speaker 4: For a fugitive so desperate.
- 1:00Speaker 5: He will stop at nothing to make his escape.
- 1:34Speaker 6: Two armed bank robbers hit a Seattle bank, taking over
- 1:38Speaker 6: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but before they can escape,
- 1:41Speaker 6: police confront them and the.
- 1:42Speaker 7: Pair splits up.
- 1:44Speaker 6: There's authority search blocked by block. They learned one was
- 1:47Speaker 6: a career criminal with a long history of violence. I'm
- 1:50Speaker 6: Jim Calstrom, former head of the FBI's New York office.
- 1:54Speaker 6: The suspect was smart and desperate to stay free. Agents
- 1:58Speaker 6: chased him through the Caribbean and across cyberspace, determined to
- 2:02Speaker 6: put an end to his career.
- 2:15Speaker 3: One of the FBI's primary responsibilities is investigating bank robberies,
- 2:22Speaker 3: and they see more of these crimes in Seattle than
- 2:25Speaker 3: just about any other place.
- 2:26Speaker 4: In the country.
- 2:28Speaker 3: The FBI office there investigates every bank robbery.
- 2:32Speaker 4: In the state of Washington.
- 2:34Speaker 3: Special Agent Mike Adams runs Seattle's robbery division.
- 2:39Speaker 2: Over the last five or six years, we've averaged three
- 2:41Speaker 2: hundred bank robberies a year, primarily here in the Seattle
- 2:45Speaker 2: or King County area. Bank robberies are a big problem
- 2:49Speaker 2: here in this area.
- 2:50Speaker 3: The FBI cites a high rate of drug addiction and
- 2:53Speaker 3: the fact that Washington has a relatively large number of
- 2:56Speaker 3: bank branches as reasons for this. The Seattle agency two
- 3:01Speaker 3: basic types of bank heists.
- 3:06Speaker 4: Most are one on one robberies, when.
- 3:09Speaker 3: Someone approaches a teller with a note and a quiet
- 3:11Speaker 3: demand for cash.
- 3:14Speaker 2: Not necessarily a robber who cares to draw attention to
- 3:18Speaker 2: him or herself by being extremely vocal or attempting to
- 3:22Speaker 2: take over the banking operations.
- 3:27Speaker 4: The other kind of robbery is more rare and more
- 3:33Speaker 4: dangerous the takeover.
- 3:38Speaker 2: A takeover robbery is where we have one or more
- 3:43Speaker 2: robbers who enter a bank and attempt to take over
- 3:46Speaker 2: the banking operations through various means, either ordering people to
- 3:52Speaker 2: the floor or ordering bank employees away from the teller counters.
- 3:58Speaker 2: More often than not, in a takeover style bank robbery,
- 4:02Speaker 2: the bank robber or robbers are armed with firearms, so
- 4:07Speaker 2: those are considered very violent as opposed to a one
- 4:12Speaker 2: on one style bank robbery.
- 4:14Speaker 4: Agents note that whenever takeover bandits get away with it,
- 4:17Speaker 4: they will usually.
- 4:18Speaker 3: Rob again, becoming bolder and more violent with each new attempt.
- 4:26Speaker 3: On May seventeenth, two thousand, one particularly vicious string of
- 4:31Speaker 3: takeover style robberies begins at a downtown Seattle bank. Working quickly,
- 4:44Speaker 3: they disappear in minutes with thousands of dollars in cash.
- 4:49Speaker 3: A week later, thieves hit another area bank brandishing bigger guns,
- 4:55Speaker 3: intensifying their assault on unsuspecting patrons and employees. Two weeks later,
- 5:02Speaker 3: robbers strike again with even more aggression. Since takeover robberies
- 5:08Speaker 3: are rare, agents believe the crimes were all perpetrated by
- 5:11Speaker 3: the same bandits.
- 5:13Speaker 2: We did see bank robberies that did appear to be
- 5:17Speaker 2: similar in nature in terms of the level of violence
- 5:21Speaker 2: in terms of large amounts of money. Certainly a robbery
- 5:26Speaker 2: of that nature is going to peque our attention because
- 5:30Speaker 2: of the significant level of violence.
- 5:34Speaker 3: Yet each time the robbers escaped cleanly and stolen getaway cars,
- 5:39Speaker 3: leaving no eye witnesses who can id themn The FBI
- 5:45Speaker 3: is facing a pair of seasoned criminals who grow more
- 5:48Speaker 3: aggressive with each attack. Recognizing a pattern of behavior, authorities
- 5:56Speaker 3: feel these violent robbers will turn deadly. Six days later,
- 6:02Speaker 3: on the morning of June twenty second, two thousand, their
- 6:06Speaker 3: worst fears are realized. Two men head down Aurora Avenue,
- 6:13Speaker 3: then turn into the parking lot of Wells Fargo Bank.
- 6:24Speaker 3: The people inside have no idea what's coming. The gunmen
- 6:39Speaker 3: corral the customers and employees, but they miss one.
- 6:48Speaker 4: The robbers are organized.
- 6:52Speaker 3: One stands guard while the other finds a teller who can.
- 6:56Speaker 4: Access the vault.
- 6:58Speaker 8: You have a key to the boat.
- 7:04Speaker 3: The manager connects with police emergency.
- 7:08Speaker 9: Still all Yamson's had a bank robbery AURA.
- 7:15Speaker 3: A dispatcher puts out an urgent call about armed robbers
- 7:18Speaker 3: still inside the bank.
- 7:21Speaker 4: Officer Wesley Buxton responds.
- 7:25Speaker 9: Was a bank robbery in progress. That's a little bit
- 7:29Speaker 9: of an unusual call. We usually get bank alarms as
- 7:31Speaker 9: opposed to bank robbery and progress.
- 7:35Speaker 3: Buxton races to the bank. Hurry inside the vault. The
- 7:46Speaker 3: thief takes all the cash is two backpacks can hold.
- 7:54Speaker 3: The teller follows orders, hoping the gunman won't kill him.
- 7:58Speaker 7: You understand me.
- 8:03Speaker 4: Buxton kills his siren as he approaches the bank.
- 8:09Speaker 9: I was the first one on the scene. There was
- 8:12Speaker 9: a motorcycle sitting out in front of the bank. I
- 8:14Speaker 9: believe it was up on the sidewalk. You really couldn't
- 8:16Speaker 9: see in the bank.
- 8:20Speaker 3: Following procedure, the officer finds cover and waits for backham
- 8:29Speaker 3: Officer Rick Sprecker arrives and gets into position. The bandits
- 8:37Speaker 3: emerge unaware of the officers. They cannot get the motorcycles started.
- 8:47Speaker 9: They sat there like they were frozen for a minute
- 8:49Speaker 9: in time, I guess, trying to figure out why the
- 8:52Speaker 9: motorcycle would it start. And then they jumped off the
- 8:54Speaker 9: motorcycle and they started running away from him.
- 8:59Speaker 3: Then one suspect trips.
- 9:06Speaker 9: I had my gun on him and told him to
- 9:09Speaker 9: stay down.
- 9:10Speaker 3: Buxton stays with the first gunman, Officer Sprecker or just
- 9:13Speaker 3: the second to stop, but the man disappears. Then Officer
- 9:20Speaker 3: Buxton is suddenly faced with the unthinkable one.
- 9:23Speaker 2: It seemed like slow motion.
- 9:24Speaker 9: I've heard the tape recording of it, and the shots
- 9:26Speaker 9: were fired in quick succession, but at that time it
- 9:29Speaker 9: seemed like they were even maybe one or two seconds
- 9:33Speaker 9: between the actual shots.
- 9:42Speaker 4: What the.
- 9:45Speaker 3: Sprecker returns fire, finally stopping the gunman. Officers contain one suspect,
- 9:56Speaker 3: the other is gone down. Officer Sprecker's call brings an
- 10:05Speaker 3: intense law enforcement response. Emergency medical technicians worked to stabilize
- 10:14Speaker 3: Officer Buckston while Officer Sprecker quickly breached detectives.
- 10:21Speaker 4: He got shot six times. Guys a man who shot
- 10:25Speaker 4: the officer his death.
- 10:28Speaker 3: The hunt for the escape suspect begins.
- 10:30Speaker 4: Immediately.
- 10:34Speaker 3: A dispatcher broadcasts a description of the fleeing gunman on
- 10:38Speaker 3: all police channels. FBI agents rushed to the bank, among
- 10:45Speaker 3: them Agent Mike Adams.
- 10:48Speaker 2: On my way to the bank, I did hear an
- 10:52Speaker 2: officer was shot and was donal was obviously a very
- 10:56Speaker 2: violent take horse style robber.
- 11:00Speaker 3: Adams recognizes that these initial reports are similar to the
- 11:04Speaker 3: three earlier robberies, and that the violence is escalated even further.
- 11:09Speaker 4: With one armed gunman.
- 11:10Speaker 3: Still on the loose, authorities quickly moved to contain the situation.
- 11:16Speaker 2: There were several people bystanders who were beginning to gather around,
- 11:21Speaker 2: so Seattle Police immediately took control of the scene. Because
- 11:24Speaker 2: of the imminent danger and potential threat that still existed.
- 11:31Speaker 3: The Seattle Police Department directs their homicide unit to the scene,
- 11:35Speaker 3: including Detective Paul Siguro.
- 11:37Speaker 10: Anytime there's officer of all shooting, where Seattle Police officer
- 11:40Speaker 10: fires a weapon, we are called to investigate.
- 11:44Speaker 3: All law enforcement agencies begin working together to develop a
- 11:48Speaker 3: plan to find the escaped gunman. Seattle Police form an
- 11:53Speaker 3: emergency command post to coordinate.
- 11:55Speaker 4: The ahead of their assignment.
- 11:56Speaker 7: Let's wrap it up right now.
- 11:58Speaker 4: Take on, all right.
- 11:59Speaker 10: The members of our SWAT team had already started a
- 12:02Speaker 10: search of the inner primary area, moving.
- 12:06Speaker 3: Toward the general direction of the fleeing suspect. SWAT methodically
- 12:10Speaker 3: searches every hiding space. They are careful, knowing that the
- 12:16Speaker 3: gunman is.
- 12:16Speaker 4: Desperate and could be anywhere go.
- 12:21Speaker 11: Go.
- 12:23Speaker 4: Concern for public safety, law enforcement swarms the area. Roads
- 12:28Speaker 4: are blocked traffic, I mean Detective Sergeant David Ritter.
- 12:34Speaker 11: The bank robbery and subsequent police shooting led to a
- 12:39Speaker 11: tremendous police presence in the area. We had dogs, we
- 12:42Speaker 11: had the King County helicopter, the special Weapons Team.
- 12:50Speaker 3: The SWAT team goes door to door warning everyone in
- 12:53Speaker 3: the business district.
- 12:56Speaker 11: Businesses were shut down. We closed all the local businesses
- 13:00Speaker 11: for the safety of the people because the suspect was
- 13:03Speaker 11: still at large.
- 13:04Speaker 7: Okay, you got all right, just do that, please, thank you.
- 13:08Speaker 3: After treating gunshot wounds and Officer Buxton's left arm and
- 13:12Speaker 3: right shoulder, the emergency medical technicians take him to the hospital.
- 13:17Speaker 9: Both wounds the bullet went in and out, so it
- 13:20Speaker 9: was just a matter of cleaning it up and make
- 13:22Speaker 9: sure there wasn't anything that would cause any kind of infection.
- 13:26Speaker 3: Special Agent Adams searches the down bank robber for clues.
- 13:30Speaker 2: I pulled out his identification which said his name was
- 13:33Speaker 2: Daniel del Fierro. He was not someone known to the
- 13:38Speaker 2: FBI at that time, but nonetheless certainly a name for
- 13:44Speaker 2: us to conduct further follow up investigation.
- 13:49Speaker 3: Investigators locate the three eighty semi automatic handgun used to
- 13:53Speaker 3: shoot Buxton a couple. In a belt pack, they find
- 13:56Speaker 3: a thirty eight revolver. Agents also recovered two backpacks full
- 14:02Speaker 3: of cash.
- 14:04Speaker 2: A lot of the money in there was still in
- 14:07Speaker 2: shrink wrap delivered from the Federal Reserve Bank later. The
- 14:12Speaker 2: money found in both backpacks came up to well over
- 14:16Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty one thousand dollars.
- 14:19Speaker 4: That is a lot of.
- 14:19Speaker 2: Money, much more than is typically taken during a bank robby.
- 14:26Speaker 4: Police run the plates of the motorcycle and learn it
- 14:29Speaker 4: will not help them id the escape suspect. The bike
- 14:33Speaker 4: was stolen.
- 14:36Speaker 3: FBI agents interview bank employees and customers, searching for clues
- 14:41Speaker 3: that might help them locate the second gunman, but the
- 14:45Speaker 3: robbers never used any names and no one saw their faces.
- 14:50Speaker 3: An evidence technician recovers a footprint left on the teller kunder,
- 14:55Speaker 3: but it is the only physical evidence investigators find.
- 14:58Speaker 4: At the scene. The heist was clean.
- 15:03Speaker 3: Local police pull up the record of the dead robber,
- 15:06Speaker 3: Daniel del Fierro. He was fresh out of prison, having
- 15:11Speaker 3: served time for manslaughter and assault. Police continue to hunt
- 15:16Speaker 3: down del Fierro's accompass. Within hours of the robbery, they
- 15:21Speaker 3: pick up his trail. Detectives respond to a nearby junk
- 15:26Speaker 3: yard where officers have recovered evidence.
- 15:29Speaker 10: We're backtracking finding the items evidence that were discarded because
- 15:34Speaker 10: he's running. He's getting rid of his motorcycle. He had
- 15:37Speaker 10: on gloves. It's sort of like the trail that he
- 15:41Speaker 10: left behind, and he continues running, probably another fifty feet.
- 15:51Speaker 10: Agent took off his jacket. There's a high chain lea
- 15:56Speaker 10: fancy bob wire on top of that. Here's all a handgun,
- 16:01Speaker 10: a forty five power or somewhere automatic pistol covered close
- 16:03Speaker 10: to the jacket.
- 16:06Speaker 3: Investigators suspect that the gunman was covering his trail by
- 16:09Speaker 3: leaving behind evidence in any clothing that would later identify him.
- 16:15Speaker 3: But just as the suspect's trail appears to be getting cold, it.
- 16:18Speaker 4: Heats up again.
- 16:21Speaker 2: I'll be right, there's gotta go.
- 16:25Speaker 3: Investigator's head to a nearby apartment building, responding to a
- 16:28Speaker 3: call made by the building's manager.
- 16:32Speaker 8: Excuse me, ma'am, you don't want to call the police.
- 16:34Speaker 3: Earlier, she had called police after finding fresh blood outside
- 16:37Speaker 3: in a parking unusual went stairs to my apartment and
- 16:41Speaker 3: noticed the blood on the stairwell.
- 16:43Speaker 10: To see surmise that the second suspect must have cut
- 16:47Speaker 10: his hand going over the fence.
- 16:49Speaker 3: If it is the gunman's blood, he could still be
- 16:52Speaker 3: in the building.
- 16:53Speaker 4: Armed and desperate. Police called for SWAT You get You
- 16:59Speaker 4: to a and a nearby team arrives immediately. With a
- 17:05Speaker 4: dangerous and elusive gunman still on the loose, police hope
- 17:10Speaker 4: they now have him cornered.
- 17:14Speaker 3: Following a Seattle bank robbery in June two thousand, a
- 17:18Speaker 3: gun battle leaves one police officer injured and one side dead.
- 17:25Speaker 3: A second armed suspect flees on foot and disappears.
- 17:32Speaker 4: Police follow a blood trail to a nearby.
- 17:34Speaker 3: Apartment building, thinking the gunman might be holed up there.
- 17:39Speaker 4: A SWAT team checks the place, one hallway, one apartment
- 17:44Speaker 4: at a time, but they find nothing.
- 17:55Speaker 3: Once the building is cleared, investigators secure a sample of
- 17:58Speaker 3: the blood for later tests.
- 18:04Speaker 4: Authorities pour every resource.
- 18:06Speaker 3: Into the intense manhunt, According to Detective Sergeant.
- 18:09Speaker 11: David Ritter, because of the seriousness of the robbery, every
- 18:13Speaker 11: available buffs that we could find was involved in this
- 18:18Speaker 11: hunt for the second suspect.
- 18:20Speaker 3: Police are cautious, knowing from experience that someone willing to
- 18:24Speaker 3: shoot a cop is far more dangerous.
- 18:26Speaker 4: Than the average criminal.
- 18:31Speaker 3: FBI agents approach residents, asking them what they've seen and
- 18:35Speaker 3: warning them about the fugitive.
- 18:38Speaker 11: The suspect was obviously very dangerous and the people in
- 18:42Speaker 11: the immediate area were afraid.
- 18:46Speaker 3: Tactical officers continue to check buildings, alleys, any place the
- 18:52Speaker 3: suspect could hide. They instruct every business in a fifteen
- 19:03Speaker 3: block area to shut down and.
- 19:04Speaker 4: Lock up thanks.
- 19:09Speaker 3: In no time, authority seal off one of Seattle's busiest
- 19:13Speaker 3: shopping districts, bringing the entire area to a standstill. Investigators
- 19:20Speaker 3: have identified the suspect killed during the shootout as Danny Delfierra.
- 19:25Speaker 3: He is the investigator's best lead for locating the second robber,
- 19:30Speaker 3: King County Deputy Prosecutor Steve Fough.
- 19:34Speaker 8: So we got an immediate warrant for his residence his
- 19:36Speaker 8: car to try to locate whatever information we could about
- 19:39Speaker 8: him and through that who he might have done the
- 19:42Speaker 8: crime with.
- 19:43Speaker 3: At del Fierro's home, investigators meet a woman who had
- 19:46Speaker 3: lived with him. She says she knows nothing about the robbery,
- 19:51Speaker 3: but helps them compile a list of her housemate's associates.
- 19:54Speaker 2: Drawing slve the crome here and listen to understanding your time.
- 19:57Speaker 3: Investigators then search del Fierro's home, but find nothing that
- 20:01Speaker 3: can help them identify the escape suspect. Across town, officers
- 20:10Speaker 3: respond to a call from a man who claims he
- 20:12Speaker 3: was the target of an attempted car jacket.
- 20:17Speaker 4: It is just north of the building where the blood
- 20:19Speaker 4: was found.
- 20:20Speaker 3: Bubbling for work and the driver explains that minutes earlier,
- 20:24Speaker 3: he was leaving his apartment accompan just.
- 20:29Speaker 8: All of a sudden, he saw this guy jump out
- 20:31Speaker 8: in front of him and slam both of his hands
- 20:34Speaker 8: down on the hood and forced him to stop. The
- 20:37Speaker 8: guy said, Hey, I've been in a fight and I
- 20:39Speaker 8: need you to help me.
- 20:40Speaker 7: Can you give me a ride?
- 20:43Speaker 4: The man became more aggressive.
- 20:46Speaker 8: He put his hand into the car, tried to grab
- 20:49Speaker 8: the keys and try to take the car himself. When
- 20:51Speaker 8: it became apparent that that was not going to work,
- 20:54Speaker 8: he became quite vicious.
- 20:55Speaker 12: You know.
- 20:55Speaker 7: Within a matter of seconds.
- 20:58Speaker 8: The owner of the car was able to fight him off,
- 21:00Speaker 8: push him out the door, and then just jet off
- 21:03Speaker 8: as fast as he could.
- 21:04Speaker 7: He reported what had happened to a police officer.
- 21:09Speaker 3: Pelisa convinced the carjacker is the robber they're pursuing. The
- 21:14Speaker 3: victim gives them a detailed description of his assailant and
- 21:16Speaker 3: the direction he was going.
- 21:20Speaker 11: He was moving to the north, so that moved the
- 21:23Speaker 11: search in that direction. We got the description out immediately,
- 21:28Speaker 11: and the media was helpful and they got it out
- 21:31Speaker 11: to the public as fast as we had it.
- 21:36Speaker 3: For three hours, investigators find no sign of the fugitive
- 21:40Speaker 3: until a nine one.
- 21:41Speaker 4: One operator gets a call my wife.
- 21:44Speaker 3: A man reports that he and his wife had been
- 21:47Speaker 3: held hostage that afternoon. The intruder had fled, but they
- 21:52Speaker 3: think he was the bank robber they heard about on
- 21:54Speaker 3: the news. Investigator's race to a residence north of the
- 22:00Speaker 3: carjacking the test.
- 22:03Speaker 4: The couple explains what happened three hours earlier.
- 22:09Speaker 3: The woman was leaving her house when she saw a
- 22:11Speaker 3: man in her truck. He was calm and told her
- 22:16Speaker 3: he'd been in a fight needed her help.
- 22:20Speaker 4: She didn't fall for it.
- 22:22Speaker 8: At this point, the police and the media were sort
- 22:25Speaker 8: of circling the area, and she pointed up to the
- 22:27Speaker 8: helicopters and said, no, I think actually they're looking for you.
- 22:30Speaker 8: And again the personality changed, just like that. The woman
- 22:34Speaker 8: who is not somebody who's just going to kind of
- 22:35Speaker 8: roll over.
- 22:36Speaker 7: For this guy.
- 22:37Speaker 4: She tried to fight back.
- 22:39Speaker 8: He grabbed a knife let her know that he was
- 22:42Speaker 8: capable of using it. He signaled to her that his
- 22:51Speaker 8: own survival was at state and he was going to
- 22:52Speaker 8: be as brutal as he had to be.
- 22:55Speaker 13: Where is the tape?
- 22:56Speaker 14: Tell me right now?
- 22:57Speaker 4: Where's the tape?
- 22:58Speaker 3: As he searched for something with which to tie her up,
- 23:04Speaker 3: her husband came home.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Hi, Hi, Hey, home, honey.
- 23:16Speaker 10: Who's going on?
- 23:16Speaker 8: Her husband then tried to intervene in the band with
- 23:19Speaker 8: his wife, and this guy punched him.
- 23:23Speaker 10: Stop moving, Stop moving, Give me your hands, Give me
- 23:26Speaker 10: your hand.
- 23:27Speaker 8: At this point, they were just doing what they needed
- 23:29Speaker 8: to do to survive, and so they said. I think
- 23:32Speaker 8: they felt like if they were tied up at least
- 23:33Speaker 8: they wouldn't be shot or anything like that.
- 23:38Speaker 3: The couple could hear the assailant making calls on his
- 23:41Speaker 3: cell phone in another room.
- 23:42Speaker 7: Camel rode off in the window.
- 23:45Speaker 2: Okay.
- 23:45Speaker 3: Then he calmly got a beer from the refrigerator and
- 23:48Speaker 3: began watching accounts of his own robbery on television. He
- 23:53Speaker 3: seemed transfixed by live images of the extensive.
- 23:56Speaker 4: Mann came.
- 24:00Speaker 8: Out two and a half three hours after they were
- 24:02Speaker 8: tied up. There is a knock on the window and
- 24:05Speaker 8: where he sort of ran out the door. That was
- 24:09Speaker 8: the last thing I ever saw of them.
- 24:13Speaker 3: By the time police respond, it's clear the suspect has slipped.
- 24:17Speaker 4: Through their dragnet.
- 24:21Speaker 11: Once we interviewed the people in the house, then it
- 24:25Speaker 11: was pretty obvious that he had gotten away. The intensive
- 24:30Speaker 11: search ended when it was obvious that he had fled
- 24:33Speaker 11: the scene and he had had some help from somebody else,
- 24:36Speaker 11: probably a car, So the actual physical search of the
- 24:40Speaker 11: area was pretty much stopped.
- 24:42Speaker 7: At that time.
- 24:44Speaker 3: Investigators process the entire house, collecting fingerprints and blood samples.
- 24:50Speaker 4: They hope the evidence will.
- 24:51Speaker 3: Help them identify a dangerous criminal, a man.
- 24:56Speaker 4: Who will do anything to escape the law. An armed
- 25:04Speaker 4: bank robber is on the run following a deadly shootout
- 25:08Speaker 4: in which police kill his partner during his flight. The
- 25:13Speaker 4: fugitive assaults at kettle.
- 25:17Speaker 3: Then holds them hostage in their Seattle home while he
- 25:20Speaker 3: waits for a ghetaway driver to help him escape. FBI
- 25:26Speaker 3: Special Agent Gary Shaneline knows this fugitive is especially dangerous.
- 25:32Speaker 14: The nature the act itself of bank robbery is very violent,
- 25:35Speaker 14: but in trying to effect an escape, his partner and
- 25:38Speaker 14: he were involved in the shooting of a police officer
- 25:42Speaker 14: and also the taking hostage of innocent citizens, so the
- 25:46Speaker 14: stakes in this particular case were definitely higher.
- 25:52Speaker 3: Detective Paul Segirl begins canvassing the neighbors of the slain robber,
- 25:56Speaker 3: Danny Delfierra. One man tells s Gurrow he had seen
- 26:03Speaker 3: television reports about the stolen motorcycle used in the robbery
- 26:07Speaker 3: and he recognized it truck.
- 26:09Speaker 10: He saw del Frero with the motorcycle prior to the
- 26:13Speaker 10: bank robbery taking place.
- 26:16Speaker 4: The man tells Girl he saw the bike on a tow.
- 26:18Speaker 10: Truck and this individual had seen another individual inside the
- 26:24Speaker 10: truck with Delfrid the day.
- 26:25Speaker 3: Before, so Gurro thinks the tow truck driver might be
- 26:30Speaker 3: the second robber. He asks the neighbor if he knows
- 26:35Speaker 3: who he is. The man says he had never seen
- 26:41Speaker 3: him before. The owners of the bank that was.
- 26:46Speaker 4: Robbed tried to help. According to FBI Special Agent Mike.
- 26:49Speaker 2: Adams all Right, that very day the bank came to
- 26:53Speaker 2: aust and wanted to offer reward for information that would
- 26:57Speaker 2: lead to the identity test and eventual conviction of the
- 27:04Speaker 2: person or persons responsible for that arms. Bank robbery.
- 27:09Speaker 3: Agents hope the large reward will make people more willing
- 27:12Speaker 3: to talk.
- 27:15Speaker 2: Myself. Other FBI agents spent many long hours attempting to
- 27:21Speaker 2: gather as much information as we could.
- 27:24Speaker 3: Investigators track down every possible lead trying to get more
- 27:28Speaker 3: information on del Fierro's known associates.
- 27:31Speaker 2: We drove to several different addresses and locations in our
- 27:36Speaker 2: attempt to interview different people who we thought might be
- 27:39Speaker 2: able to lead to the identity as well as the
- 27:42Speaker 2: location of the second suspect of this bank rbery.
- 27:47Speaker 3: Every lead becomes a dead end. Investigators finally get a
- 27:54Speaker 3: break when officers begin processing the evidence left behind by
- 27:58Speaker 3: the fleeing robber.
- 28:02Speaker 8: And said the jacket was this piece of paper that
- 28:04Speaker 8: had a photocopy of a driver's license that belonged to
- 28:06Speaker 8: a young sixteen year old girl, and then a lot
- 28:09Speaker 8: of information about who she was.
- 28:13Speaker 4: Police begin looking for the young woman.
- 28:16Speaker 8: They called the best number they had for her, which
- 28:17Speaker 8: was her dad, and her dad said, wow, she's at
- 28:20Speaker 8: the movies, and they said, well, you know what you
- 28:22Speaker 8: need to get her. So she came and talked to
- 28:25Speaker 8: the police, and she said that as soon as her
- 28:27Speaker 8: dad came into.
- 28:27Speaker 7: The movie that she immediately knew what it was about.
- 28:30Speaker 4: Basically, the reason why I asked this.
- 28:31Speaker 3: Because they show her the photocopied license and asked how
- 28:34Speaker 3: the bank robbers got its.
- 28:35Speaker 7: Answered is I really would hate to see.
- 28:37Speaker 10: She told us that she was approached by person she
- 28:39Speaker 10: went to high school with. The person she went to
- 28:41Speaker 10: high school with said, I have an individual that has
- 28:44Speaker 10: large sums of money.
- 28:45Speaker 7: He needs ID and social security numbers.
- 28:48Speaker 10: In return, you'll get a couple thousand dollars if you
- 28:50Speaker 10: can let us use your ID and social Security number.
- 28:54Speaker 3: The young woman explains the information was to be used
- 28:56Speaker 3: to set up bank accounts to launder stolen money. She
- 29:01Speaker 3: gives detectives the name of her high school friend, the
- 29:04Speaker 3: middleman for the ID fraud is. Detectives track down the
- 29:10Speaker 3: man and try to get him to cooperate.
- 29:14Speaker 10: So you contacted him early morning hours. He's somewhat reluctant
- 29:19Speaker 10: to talk to us at first, but then as we
- 29:21Speaker 10: started talking and we finally started to tell us about
- 29:24Speaker 10: who it was that asked him to obtain the identifications
- 29:27Speaker 10: so scary numbers.
- 29:29Speaker 7: His name is Aristotle.
- 29:30Speaker 4: Aristotle, he tells detectives. The man's name is Aristotle.
- 29:34Speaker 10: Mar We then thought that it's very possible Aristotle Mar
- 29:39Speaker 10: is the person we're looking for because he was obviously
- 29:42Speaker 10: looking for a way to launder money in hopes of
- 29:45Speaker 10: getting legitimate funds and return.
- 29:47Speaker 3: Investigators are convinced they're on the right track when the
- 29:50Speaker 3: middleman tells investigators that Mar owns a towing service. At
- 29:59Speaker 3: least conductive back ground check DMV records reveal that there
- 30:06Speaker 3: is a tow truck registered to Mar and that it
- 30:10Speaker 3: matches the one described by del Fierro's neighbor. Investigator's return
- 30:17Speaker 3: to del Fierro's home to ask his old roommate if
- 30:20Speaker 3: she knows Aristotle Mar. She says Mar and del Fierro
- 30:25Speaker 3: had been friends since childhood.
- 30:27Speaker 10: Aristotle, So now his name has come up in two
- 30:30Speaker 10: different sources or two different ways during investigation. So now
- 30:33Speaker 10: we started to focus on Aristotle Mar as being a
- 30:36Speaker 10: second suspect involved in the bank robbery.
- 30:39Speaker 3: Authority's check Mar's police record. It's clean, except for one
- 30:44Speaker 3: assault charge he received as a minor. Tax records show
- 30:48Speaker 3: Mar runs a successful towing business and already owns property
- 30:51Speaker 3: worth four hundred thousand dollars. Police are surprised to learn
- 30:56Speaker 3: he was a star athlete in high school, graduating six
- 30:59Speaker 3: years earlier with a four point zero grade point average.
- 31:02Speaker 8: The first thing everybody said about him was how smart
- 31:05Speaker 8: he was, and you could see he had a lot
- 31:07Speaker 8: of potential life but was impatient enough, and I think
- 31:09Speaker 8: that that fed directly into the greed that motivated these crimes.
- 31:16Speaker 3: Steve fogg subpoena is the cell phone records of Mar
- 31:18Speaker 3: and del Fierra. He discovers calls made between the two
- 31:23Speaker 3: suspects prior to the robbery, circumstantial evidence that they were
- 31:28Speaker 3: possibly in the planning stages.
- 31:31Speaker 8: Danny Delfierra, Arisolomon. We're talking, you know, ten times in an
- 31:35Speaker 8: hour and the days and weeks that preceded this.
- 31:39Speaker 3: Police then ask witnesses to confirm Mars's identity.
- 31:43Speaker 4: To do this, they create a photo montage.
- 31:46Speaker 8: That's typically what happens is you have six photos and
- 31:50Speaker 8: the person who's the suspect is one of the six.
- 31:53Speaker 8: Here the police put together a twelve person montage. They
- 31:58Speaker 8: really went through the extra mile just to make I'm
- 32:00Speaker 8: absolutely certain that we had the right guy.
- 32:03Speaker 3: Authorities show the photo monetage to the woman who was
- 32:06Speaker 3: assaulted and held hostage in her.
- 32:08Speaker 8: Home and she didn't have any hesitation at all. She
- 32:12Speaker 8: picked out mister maher Immediately.
- 32:15Speaker 3: Later, her husband and the carjacking victim would also pick
- 32:18Speaker 3: out Mar as their attacker.
- 32:21Speaker 8: So with that taken together with all the circumstantial evidence,
- 32:24Speaker 8: we are quite confident that Aristolomar was the guy we
- 32:27Speaker 8: were looking for.
- 32:29Speaker 3: Authorities secure an arrest warrant for Mar and a search
- 32:33Speaker 3: warrant for his home. Knowing Mar's volatile tendencies, police prepare
- 32:39Speaker 3: for what could be a violent confrontation. On June twenty second,
- 32:47Speaker 3: two thousand, a pair of alleged serial bank robbers hit
- 32:51Speaker 3: another Seattle bank.
- 32:54Speaker 4: During a shootout with police.
- 32:56Speaker 3: One bandit is killed and the other is scarce. The
- 33:04Speaker 3: dead robber is Daniel del Fierro. Authorities believed the fugitive
- 33:10Speaker 3: is Aristotle Mar. Fearing a violent confrontation, police prepare to
- 33:16Speaker 3: serve arrest in search warrants with the help of a
- 33:19Speaker 3: tactical unit. With the team are homicide detectives Paul Segurro
- 33:24Speaker 3: and David Ritter.
- 33:26Speaker 11: When we went to the residents, we had members of
- 33:30Speaker 11: the SWAT team multiple Seattle police units to assist us
- 33:34Speaker 11: in securing the premise.
- 33:41Speaker 3: Room by room, SWAT searches the house, they find no
- 33:51Speaker 3: sign of Mar. Homicide detective all secure.
- 34:02Speaker 10: Once the home is secured, myself and the rest of
- 34:06Speaker 10: the house side unit went in and started searching through
- 34:08Speaker 10: the home something real quick.
- 34:10Speaker 3: They look for any evidence that can tie Mard to
- 34:13Speaker 3: the robbery or provide a clue who is whereabouts. In
- 34:19Speaker 3: a hidden storage area, they find remnants of an arsenal
- 34:23Speaker 3: that that Detectives recover empty containers for various types of handguns.
- 34:31Speaker 7: They can't reach for that sect.
- 34:34Speaker 3: Although they do find a few weapons, most of the
- 34:37Speaker 3: guns are gone.
- 34:40Speaker 11: There was different types of ammunition for long gun shotguns.
- 34:43Speaker 11: There was ammunition for handguns.
- 34:46Speaker 3: Detectives begin looking at the bullets more closely and uncover
- 34:50Speaker 3: an important piece of evitlossy.
- 34:52Speaker 10: We found ammunition that Matt ammunition that we found at
- 34:55Speaker 10: the scene of the bank robbery.
- 34:58Speaker 3: Authorities also discover another documents that show frequent travel to
- 35:03Speaker 3: and from Jamaica by Mar and several associates.
- 35:07Speaker 10: Also, there was small photographs and templates for the making
- 35:13Speaker 10: of what appeared to be false identification small perfiliar.
- 35:18Speaker 3: Investigators suspect that Mar may have plans to flee the
- 35:21Speaker 3: country under a false name. During the search at Marr's home,
- 35:28Speaker 3: authorities discover a second house on the property.
- 35:33Speaker 2: I need the house cleared over there.
- 35:35Speaker 3: Agents immediately file a search warrant for the place and
- 35:38Speaker 3: set up surveillance. While they wait for the warrant to
- 35:40Speaker 3: be processed. For a week, authorities watch people come and go,
- 35:48Speaker 3: but see no sign of the robbery suspect. When a
- 35:54Speaker 3: judge finally issues the warrant, Swatt goes in. What they
- 36:07Speaker 3: find spends the investigation in another direction. The building is
- 36:12Speaker 3: a storage unit for stolen goods.
- 36:18Speaker 10: We found numerous boxes, brand new appliances, writing lawmars that
- 36:26Speaker 10: were brand new, refrigerators, numerous cellar phones, and just all
- 36:34Speaker 10: kinds of items that were still intact, brand new, still
- 36:36Speaker 10: in the box.
- 36:38Speaker 3: Investigators fine packing lists still attached to the items, indicating
- 36:43Speaker 3: they came from local home improvement stores.
- 36:47Speaker 10: It was obvious to that Aristoto Mar was involved in
- 36:50Speaker 10: a bigger criminal enterprise than just bank robberies.
- 36:53Speaker 4: The items were large or were appliances.
- 36:56Speaker 11: There were palletts of windows, big things, stuff that somebody
- 36:59Speaker 11: doesn't go in and shoplifted. I mean, these were big
- 37:02Speaker 11: items and showed that there had to be some pretty
- 37:07Speaker 11: sophisticated means to obtain this property. It was obvious that
- 37:12Speaker 11: we needed help from our burglary and theft people. They
- 37:16Speaker 11: coordinated the recovery of the property.
- 37:21Speaker 3: The Burglary and Theft division worked with representatives from the
- 37:24Speaker 3: local stores to identify more than one hundred thousand dollars
- 37:27Speaker 3: worth of stolen goods.
- 37:30Speaker 10: Representatives provided a big, large movie van and all the
- 37:34Speaker 10: items that were identified as being stolen or suspicious were
- 37:37Speaker 10: then loaded in the back of the moving van had
- 37:39Speaker 10: taken out property.
- 37:42Speaker 3: Investigators suspected Mar must have had help obtaining and selling
- 37:45Speaker 3: the items.
- 37:48Speaker 11: We believe a lot of the stolen property.
- 37:50Speaker 12: Was sent to Jamaica, just with some indications some receipts,
- 37:57Speaker 12: shipping receipts, et cetera that showed a large amount of
- 38:02Speaker 12: household goods going to Jamaica.
- 38:06Speaker 3: Authorities intensify their search for the alleged crime ring leader,
- 38:09Speaker 3: Aristotle Mar. The Seattle FBI's Fugitive Task Force takes the
- 38:14Speaker 3: lead Special Agent Gary Schenlin Well.
- 38:18Speaker 13: We started with the fundamentals by contacting his family and
- 38:23Speaker 13: associates in the hopes of finding that person that could
- 38:27Speaker 13: give us the information that would lead to safe and
- 38:30Speaker 13: swift apprehension.
- 38:34Speaker 3: But every person agent's interview claims no knowledge of Mar's wareabouts.
- 38:40Speaker 3: Within weeks, the search for Mar begins.
- 38:42Speaker 4: To take its toll on the fugitive.
- 38:46Speaker 3: In an unexpected bold move, a group of Mars supporters,
- 38:50Speaker 3: including his lawyer, holds.
- 38:51Speaker 4: A press conference proclaiming his innocence.
- 38:55Speaker 3: They charged police have falsely accused him because of his
- 38:58Speaker 3: association with Daniel del Fierra. Agents speak with lawyers about
- 39:05Speaker 3: arranging surrender, but instead here a preposterous claim.
- 39:10Speaker 14: We try to have him turn himself in in a
- 39:13Speaker 14: safe manner, in a controlled environment, and they said that
- 39:18Speaker 14: he was afraid that he was going to be killed
- 39:21Speaker 14: by the local police.
- 39:24Speaker 4: Mar remains a fugitive. The FBI takes a new approach.
- 39:31Speaker 3: They seek the help of a national television crime show
- 39:35Speaker 3: advertising a twenty five thousand dollars reward for information leading
- 39:39Speaker 3: to Mar's arrest.
- 39:41Speaker 4: The tips pour in.
- 39:43Speaker 3: One caller claims he's been in contact with Mar through
- 39:46Speaker 3: a popular web based instant messaging system. Agent subpoena the
- 39:51Speaker 3: internet provider for details on the instant messaging account and
- 39:55Speaker 3: receive transcripts of the online conversations.
- 39:59Speaker 14: Through the content of dialogue on the instant messaging communication,
- 40:03Speaker 14: it was logical to believe that one of the participants
- 40:07Speaker 14: was Aristotle Mar.
- 40:10Speaker 3: The company provides agents with the address of the computer used.
- 40:16Speaker 14: We approached it with a belief that it was possible
- 40:19Speaker 14: that Mark could be there at that time.
- 40:26Speaker 3: Armed with a search work, they confront a man who
- 40:29Speaker 3: they recognized as a known associate of Mar.
- 40:33Speaker 4: He says, Mar, isn't there.
- 40:35Speaker 10: No.
- 40:37Speaker 3: Agents conduct a thorough search for any evidence that could
- 40:40Speaker 3: prove the fugitive had been in the apartment, but they
- 40:43Speaker 3: find nothing. Agents confiscate the computer in question. They eventually
- 40:52Speaker 3: determined that Mar had probably never used the computer, that
- 40:56Speaker 3: it had been the associate pretending to be Mare on
- 40:58Speaker 3: the instant messaging site studied Ready, the investigator's latest lead
- 41:03Speaker 3: is a dead end.
- 41:05Speaker 14: That search really didn't glean any further information regarding Aristotle's whereabouts.
- 41:11Speaker 3: The FBI continues surveillance if the houses of family and friends,
- 41:15Speaker 3: but soon realize Mar may never return.
- 41:19Speaker 14: You know, unlike your garden variety of bank robber, Aristotle,
- 41:22Speaker 14: Mar did have some financial means. He had owned property
- 41:28Speaker 14: at a rental house, and I'm sure that those assets
- 41:32Speaker 14: and those means you helped him in his futuive status.
- 41:37Speaker 3: An informant calls the FBI with a tip that appears
- 41:40Speaker 3: to support what agents already fear.
- 41:44Speaker 14: Confidential source indicator that he had fled under an alias,
- 41:47Speaker 14: that he had not just crossed the state line, but
- 41:50Speaker 14: actually had fled the country, and that he had fled
- 41:53Speaker 14: to Jamaica.
- 41:55Speaker 4: If Mar has indeed left the country under another name,
- 41:59Speaker 4: he might be possible to find.
- 42:02Speaker 3: The FBI is now facing their toughest obstacle in a
- 42:06Speaker 3: case that appears impossible to crack. The FBI continues to
- 42:14Speaker 3: hunt for bank robbery suspects Aristotle Mar. They believe he
- 42:19Speaker 3: fled to Jamaica under an assumed name, but the FBI
- 42:24Speaker 3: cannot simply go after According to Special Agent Gary Shanemine.
- 42:29Speaker 14: We don't have any police authority in other countries. So
- 42:34Speaker 14: there are FBI representatives and there's US marshalls in Jamaica
- 42:39Speaker 14: that liaise with Jamaican authorities, and I was providing them
- 42:44Speaker 14: with all the information that we were gleaning from our
- 42:45Speaker 14: investigation here, giving them names and points of contact, possible
- 42:50Speaker 14: locations that were worthy of investigation in Jamaica in the
- 42:54Speaker 14: pursuit of Mar.
- 42:57Speaker 3: Investigating Mar's whereabouts in Jamaica is difficult. He's well connected
- 43:03Speaker 3: on the island and has a lot of money to
- 43:05Speaker 3: help him disappear.
- 43:08Speaker 14: We're confident that through those resources that he was able
- 43:11Speaker 14: to maintain a low profile and have different places to
- 43:14Speaker 14: go to to hide himself.
- 43:18Speaker 4: Informants report occasional sightings of the fugitive, but he eludes capture.
- 43:25Speaker 3: Agents believe he is moving from house to house under
- 43:27Speaker 3: cover of night, supported by a loyal.
- 43:29Speaker 4: Group of associates.
- 43:33Speaker 3: Person Following the leads from agents in the United States,
- 43:37Speaker 3: authorities in Jamaica relentlessly pursue the fugitive. They contact every
- 43:44Speaker 3: known associate of Aristotle Mar. They are uncooperative, but authorities
- 43:51Speaker 3: keep them under surveillance.
- 43:53Speaker 8: Aristotle Law marshalls were watching everything they did down in Jamaica.
- 43:57Speaker 8: They made it very clear that they were not going
- 43:59Speaker 8: to go away until mister Marr returned to the United
- 44:02Speaker 8: States and answered to these charges.
- 44:05Speaker 3: In Seattle, King County Deputy Prosecutor Steve Fogg decides to
- 44:09Speaker 3: file several charges against the fugitive. Based on the abundance
- 44:13Speaker 3: of circumstantial evidence already in hand.
- 44:16Speaker 8: We charged him with an array of counts that reflected
- 44:20Speaker 8: the full nature of this crime spread. We charged him
- 44:24Speaker 8: with robbery in the first degree with the firearm and
- 44:26Speaker 8: hands him because he was armed when that happened. We
- 44:30Speaker 8: charged him as an accomplice with Danny Delfiero to the shooting.
- 44:34Speaker 7: Of Officer Buxton.
- 44:39Speaker 8: We charged him with the temp robbery too, which is
- 44:41Speaker 8: a formal way of saying attempted carjacking, and then it
- 44:48Speaker 8: kidnappings because they weren't essentially kidnapped and held hostage in
- 44:51Speaker 8: their own basement.
- 44:54Speaker 3: Steve Fogg also suspects Mars involved in an international theft ring,
- 44:58Speaker 3: but decides not to pray charges.
- 45:02Speaker 8: Mister Marwer was already looking at so much time that
- 45:04Speaker 8: the amount of additional time that would be added by
- 45:07Speaker 8: this lepturn would be negligible. I mean, you're talking about
- 45:10Speaker 8: a year or two on a guy who's looking at,
- 45:12Speaker 8: you know, thirty forty fifty years in prison. So we
- 45:14Speaker 8: did not charge mister Marr.
- 45:16Speaker 3: For the authorities intensify their search for mar Seattle homicide
- 45:22Speaker 3: Detective David Ritter.
- 45:24Speaker 11: We kept the pressure up break I mean, they felt
- 45:28Speaker 11: our presence. He made several complaints that we were harassing them,
- 45:33Speaker 11: but we weren't. We were conducting an investigation of very
- 45:38Speaker 11: violent crime, and we wanted to solve it. We wanted
- 45:41Speaker 11: him in custody. It got the whole situation probably too
- 45:47Speaker 11: hot for him. He didn't he wasn't having much fun anymore.
- 45:52Speaker 3: After seven months, the constant pressure pays off. On February seventh,
- 45:58Speaker 3: two thousand and one, Aristotle Mar shocks police walking into
- 46:03Speaker 3: the King County Jail with his lawyer.
- 46:08Speaker 6: Did you go up to the counter, put your hands
- 46:09Speaker 6: where I can see him?
- 46:11Speaker 3: Seattle Police detective Paul Sigurro had chased Mar from the beginning.
- 46:15Speaker 6: Sorry Christopher Steebo down to watch desk, Aristotle Mar just
- 46:19Speaker 6: turned himself in.
- 46:21Speaker 10: I was surprised that Aristono Mar had actually took upon
- 46:24Speaker 10: himself to turn himself in. We tried to talk to
- 46:29Speaker 10: Aristono Mar interview about the robberies where he'd been.
- 46:35Speaker 7: He did not wish to.
- 46:36Speaker 10: Talk about any aspects of the investigation at all.
- 46:40Speaker 3: The authorities believe he has come back to take the
- 46:42Speaker 3: pressure off his associates, and because he is sure the
- 46:46Speaker 3: charges will never stick.
- 46:49Speaker 8: He was quite confident, in fact probably cocky, that this
- 46:54Speaker 8: would be a case that he could beat in court.
- 46:57Speaker 8: He could come back beat this case and killed two
- 47:00Speaker 8: bar took one storm.
- 47:02Speaker 3: At his arraignment, mar pleads not guilty to all charges.
- 47:07Speaker 8: One advantage that mister Marr had by fleeing was he
- 47:10Speaker 8: could sit back and watch our case development. I had
- 47:13Speaker 8: no doubt that he'd have an explanation for all the evidence,
- 47:16Speaker 8: and we would have a real fight on our hands
- 47:18Speaker 8: at trial.
- 47:19Speaker 3: Mar's defense team knows that lab examiners have found his
- 47:22Speaker 3: fingerprints on items dropped outside the bank, including the motorcycle,
- 47:26Speaker 3: helmet and a pair of gloves. They explained that Prince,
- 47:31Speaker 3: by claiming mar lent the items to Daniel del Fierro,
- 47:34Speaker 3: who suspect killed in the shootout.
- 47:38Speaker 8: What mister Maher didn't know about, but we of course
- 47:41Speaker 8: knew about, was this blood trail that had been left.
- 47:46Speaker 8: I knew that the next step was to get an
- 47:48Speaker 8: immediate sample of his blood, and I knew that that
- 47:52Speaker 8: would definitely be the silver bullet if we were able
- 47:54Speaker 8: to develop DNA information from the blood trail that was left.
- 47:58Speaker 3: A judge orders to submit the samples, which DNA experts
- 48:04Speaker 3: compared of blood found at the apartment complex and inside
- 48:07Speaker 3: the kidnapped couple's house truck. The examiner reports a match.
- 48:15Speaker 8: At that point, any concern we had about the outcome
- 48:19Speaker 8: of that case definantly lifted because it was clear that,
- 48:25Speaker 8: taken together with all the other evidence that we already had,
- 48:27Speaker 8: that you know, this is a rock solid case.
- 48:30Speaker 3: Mar decides not to risk a jury trial and changes
- 48:33Speaker 3: his plea to the guilty. He is sentenced to twenty
- 48:36Speaker 3: three years in prison with no chance of parole. Seattle
- 48:42Speaker 3: Police officer Wesley Buxton shot during his confrontation with Mar
- 48:46Speaker 3: and del Fierro is relieved that Mar finally got what
- 48:49Speaker 3: he deserved.
- 48:51Speaker 9: I'm probably your typical police officer that feels that criminals
- 48:54Speaker 9: should get much more than they actually get as far
- 48:56Speaker 9: as the demands of justice, but I was fairly satisfied
- 49:01Speaker 9: with the sentence.
- 49:02Speaker 4: Special Agent Mike Adams.
- 49:05Speaker 2: Given the high number of bank robberies we have every year,
- 49:07Speaker 2: on average, well over three hundred bank robberies here in
- 49:11Speaker 2: the state of Washington, it's a good feeling when we
- 49:13Speaker 2: can bring about, or at least help bring about a
- 49:16Speaker 2: successful conclusion to such a high profile bank robbery investigation.
- 49:22Speaker 3: In the end, it was the combined efforts of the
- 49:25Speaker 3: Seattle Police Department and the FBI that finally put Aristotle
- 49:30Speaker 3: mar out of business.