Michael Jason Martinez, 39, one of a pair of Colorado bank robbers named the Snowboard Bandits for a string of robberies in the fall of 2007 was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on April 1, 2009 by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn.
Martinez along with Edgar Perez robbed TCF Banks in Westminster, Broomfield, Colorado Springs, and Avada, Colorado before being caught.
The defendant removed money from teller drawers, placing the cash into a soft sided black briefcase. He then fled on foot. A few minutes after the robbery, an Arvada Police officer conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle matching the description of a car seen leaving the scene of the bank robbery. Upon approaching the car the officer observed red dye consistent with dye stains from a bank dye pack. Martinez, who was in the passenger seat of the car, was arrested.
They were apparently named the snowboard bandits because they robbed the banks wearing snowboard clothing, just one of the strategies that didn’t really work for them apparently.
[Link: Lawfuel]
