Three defendants from the Bay Area pled guilty in federal court to a series of bank robberies carried out from June 2023 to September 2024. Dontae Jerome Jones Jr., JoMya Mauriyne Futch, and Yasmin Charisse Millett participated in at least 10 bank heists across various locations. They conspired to intimidate bank employees using threatening notes and groomed others, mainly women, to assist in these robberies. Their criminal activities included using a stolen vehicle and leveraging social media to advertise their gains. The guilty pleas are a crucial development in tackling such organized crime in the region.
Jones and Millett actively sought and groomed recruits to act as the note passers, advertising the conspiracy on social media with videos of large amounts of cash.
The participants drove to bank and credit union branches, entered with threatening notes demanding money, and exited to a waiting getaway car.
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