FBI’s ‘Operation Summer Heat’ Leads to Arrest of Suspected Las Vegas Bank Robber Devonte Devon Jackson in Texas

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas office has been running a high-temperature operation. Not in the literal sense, but rather an initiative they’ve dubbed “Operation Summer Heat.” Over the course of five grueling weeks, the heat bore down, culminating in the arrest of seven individuals who thought themselves fugitives from justice. Among them was one Devonte Devon Jackson, a name now shackled with the weight of federal charges, all stemming from an audacious armed robbery outside a Las Vegas bank.

Details provided by the FBI Dallas’ Facebook page state that Jackson was taken into custody near Centerville, Texas. He was arrested with the collaboration of FBI agents from Dallas and Las Vegas. As the FBI’s net closed in, Jackson faced not only the Texas sun but also the grim reality of extradition to Las Vegas, where the charges against him reached indictment level, including “one-count of interference with commerce by robbery and one-count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence,” according to details shared in a linked Department of Justice document…

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