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Date: 05-03-2022

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United States of America v. Angel Luis Masdeu

Case Number: 4:21-cr-00359-SAL-1

Judge: Sherri A. Lydon

Court: United States District Court for the District of South Carolina (Florence County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office

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Description: Florence, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with attempted bank rubbery.

On February 25, 2021, Angel Luis Masdeu, age 59, of Hartsville, took a taxicab to a bank in Hartsville where he directed the taxi driver to enter the drive-thru line and place an envelope in the pneumatic tube. The bank teller received the envelope, which contained a torn, handwritten note demanding all money from all drawers and threatening to kill and/or blow up the bank. The teller activated the alarm, and officers with the Hartsville Police Department were dispatched to the bank. After arriving on scene, officers located the taxicab in the drive-thru line and detained Masdeu. Upon searching the taxicab, officers located several envelopes matching the envelope that was used to send the note and part of a torn paper matching the tear on the note. Officers determined the taxi driver was not involved in the attempted bank robbery.

United States District Judge Sherri A. Lydon sentenced Masdeu to 72 months in federal prison, to be followed by a three-year term of court-ordered supervision. There is no parole in the federal system.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Hartsville Police Department.

This case was prosecuted as part of the joint federal, state, and local Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. As part of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partners with locally based prevention and reentry programs for lasting reductions in crime.

Assistant United States Attorney Lauren Hummel prosecuted the case.
18:2113(a) BANK ROBBERY BY FORCE OR VIOLENCE
(1)

Outcome: The defendant is hereby committed to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons for a total of seventy-two (72) months. The Court makes the following recommendations to the Bureau of Prisons: The defendant is to be allowed to participate in any and all drug rehabilitation and treatment programs; as well as any vocational and educational programs with the BOP; and that the defendant be allowed to serve his sentence at a facility in the state of Florida, assuming he qualifies. Upon release from imprisonment, defendant will be on supervised release for a term of three (3) years. While on supervised release, the defendant shall comply with mandatory and standard conditions of supervision, as well as special conditions. $100 special assessment.

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