Just six months right after release from jail, Bay Spot serial financial institution robber is at it all over again, feds say

OAKLAND — A Bay Region gentleman has been billed with robbing 4 banking companies all around the East Bay, just 6 months immediately after he was unveiled from federal prison for a related crime spree, court information present.

Phillip LeBlanc, 39, was indicted last thirty day period on rates of robbing banking institutions in Dublin, Berkeley, and two in Walnut Creek, and is billed individually for violating the phrases of his post-conviction supervised launch. He continues to be in federal custody on a no-bail hold, documents exhibit.

Back in 2018, LeBlanc pleaded guilty to robbing two financial institutions in San Francisco and one in Oakland. He was sentenced the adhering to 12 months to four yrs in prison and purchased to spend back the $11,118 he stole, court docket data clearly show. At the time, his attorney requested U.S. District Choose Maxine Chesney to not about-sentence LeBlanc for “a limited sequence of very poor selections on Mr. LeBlanc’s aspect in an otherwise legislation-abiding life.”

“There is no indicator that Mr. LeBlanc will re-offend or that a lengthy sentence is necessary to have him or remove him from culture,” assistant public defender Elizabeth Falk wrote in a sentencing short.

LeBlanc was introduced from prison on Jan. 13, records demonstrate.

This time close to, prosecutors allege LeBlanc dedicated four independent robberies around the East Bay “on or about” Aug. 30, according to the indictment. They say he created off with a overall of $778, including just one theft that only netted him $48 in dollars, and a person robbery that was unsuccessful.

Prosecutors have not yet revealed how LeBlanc was tied to all four robberies, but they did say he was arrested in Walnut Creek following robbing or making an attempt to rob two banking companies there. At all over 1:45 p.m. on Aug. 30, he robbed a Mechanics Financial institution in Walnut Creek for $610 soon after an “unsuccessful attempt” to rob the Union Financial institution, prosecutors wrote in court information.

“Walnut Creek Police Division officers positioned Mr. LeBlanc three blocks away from Mechanics Bank and arrested him,” prosecutors wrote in a petition to revoke LeBlanc’s supervised launch.

In his 2018 conviction, prosecutors alleged that LeBlanc had also established a woman up for a theft and held her up with a toy gun, in addition to the lender heists, and that he’d set all of his victims in perceived lifestyle-or-demise scenarios.

“During just about every financial institution robbery, LeBlanc both possessed a dangerous weapon or gave the teller a observe saying that he experienced a gun,” assistant U.S. Lawyer wrote in a sentencing memo.