Bank robber sentenced

Published 10:56 pm Thursday, January 19, 2012

Jason Paul Davis is seen here in a security photo taken at Selma’s RBC Bank location in Novembe 2010. Davis was convicted of robbing the bank and was sentenced to 153 months in federal court Wednesday in Mobile. -- Special photo

A November 2010 bank robbery landed Jason Paul Davis 153 months in a federal prison during sentencing Wednesday in Mobile.

Davis, who robbed RBC Bank in Selma, was taken into custody soon after the robbery in Ardmore, Tenn. through a collaborative effort between law enforcement agencies, District Attorney Michael Jackson said.

“This was another cooperative effort by local law enforcement and federal agencies to get another bank robber off the streets,” he said.

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Davis, who had an address listed at Rita Lane in Huntsville, was captured by authorities in Tennessee after a call came through that he had robbed the CB&S Bank. Ardmore police officers arrived at the bank, located at 26314 Main St., about a minute after the dispatcher received a call and dispatched an all-points bulletin for a black male in his 30s, wearing a white hooded sweatshirt and brown ball cap in a white Dodge Charger going east on Highway 53.

A high speed chase continued into Limestone County, Alabama. Davis and the vehicle were found on Wooley Spring Road.

Selma authorities had been searching for Davis since the Nov. 29, 2010 robbery. Witnesses said Davis walked into the RBC Bank on Broad Street and handed a teller a note threatening her life and demanding all the money in her cash drawer.

The man walked out of the bank, but the bank cameras caught a photograph of him.

Eyewitnesses told police the suspect walked toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge and toward Water Avenue.’

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