Oklahoma Federal Bank Robbery Attorney
Title 18, Section 2113 of the United States Code is known as the Federal Bank Robbery Act. Section 2113(a) states:
Whoever, by force and violence, or by intimidation, takes, or attempts to take, from the person or presence of another, or obtains or attempts to obtain by extortion any property or money or any other thing of value belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of, any bank, credit union, or any savings and loan association; or
Whoever enters or attempts to enter any bank, credit union, or any savings and loan association, or any building used in whole or in part as a bank, credit union, or as a savings and loan association, with intent to commit in such bank, credit union, or in such savings and loan association, or building, or part thereof, so used, any felony affecting such bank, credit union, or such savings and loan association and in violation of any statute of the United States, or any larceny. . . .
Anyone who violates Section 2113(a) is subject to up to twenty (20) years imprisonment in the Bureau of Prisons and/or a fine under Title 18 of the United States Code.
If the offender assaults any person, or puts in jeopardy the life of any person by the use of a dangerous weapon or device during the commission or attempted commission of an offense set forth in Section 2113(a), then the range of punishment increases to a maximum of twenty-five (25) years imprisonment. If any person is killed or kidnapped during the commission of a bank robbery, attempted commission of a bank robbery, or in avoiding or attempting to avoid arrest or confinement for bank robbery, then the range of punishment increases to include a mandatory minimum of ten (10) years imprisonment, and, if death results, the maximum punishment is increased to life imprisonment or death.