A man who spent nearly two decades behind bars for robbing three banks in Baltimore will spend another ten years behind bars after he was found guilty of robbing another bank in Orlando.
Nacoe Ray Brown, 55, was sentenced to spend ten years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron on Friday, April 14. The sentence includes eight years for the robbery offense and two years for violating the terms of his previous release from convictions for robbing banks in Maryland.
On June 28, 2022, while Brown was visiting Florida, he robbed the McCoy Federal Credit Union located at 1900 McCoy Road in Belle Isle. Brown entered the bank wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses, a surgical style face mask, and plastic gloves.
Brown, who is from Baltimore, was previously convicted of robbing three banks in the Baltimore area in 2001. He was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison and was granted an early release in 2020. After he was released, Brown began serving a term of supervised release under the U.S. Probation Office in Baltimore.
During the robbery last year, Brown passed a note to a teller threatening that he had a gun and demanding money. The teller gave Brown $4,296 before he fled the bank and entered a nearby gas station where he had a change of clothes staged. A witness who saw Brown leave the bank and enter the gas station contacted the Belle Isle Police Department, and shortly thereafter, he was found by police at a local hotel.
Law enforcement authorities recovered the demand note that Brown had passed to the bank employee and a bag that contained all of the cash. Police also recovered the disguise that Brown had discarded in the restroom of the gas station.
After he was arrested, Brown told authorities that he committed the bank robbery because he was filming a movie in Florida and had run out of money to pay for production.
Brown pled guilty on January 4 and had faced a maximum penalty of 23 years for the bank robbery and violation of the terms of his supervised release.