A District man will spend decades behind bars for his role in a botched attempted bank heist in Calvert County and subsequent police pursuit, the state’s attorney’s office announced.
Jemel Anthony Brown, 32, has been sentenced to 32 years in prison to be served at the Department of Corrections for his role in the robbery at M&T Bank in Dunkirk last May.
Those arrested at the time:
- Brown;
- Silas Moliek Moore, 37;
- Cedric Fondta Moore, 39;
- Donise Sarah Blacknell, 26.
All three other suspects previously sentenced for the robbery. All four were from Washington, DC.
At approximately 1:30 p.m. on Monday, May 1, 2023, members of the sheriff’s office were tipped off to an alleged armed bank robbery at the M&T Bank location on Southern Maryland Boulevard in Dunkirk.
According to investigators, one of the men approached a bank teller and slipped over a note demanding cash while displaying a handgun.
He left with an undisclosed amount of money in a brown Kia with no front tag that sped away southbound on Route 4, witnesses advised detectives from the agency’s Criminal Investigation Bureau.