FEDERAL CHARGES ANNOUNCED AGAINST MAN AND WOMAN CHARGED IN DAYTON, OHIO AREA BANK ROBBERIES

J. Mark Batts, Acting Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Cincinnati Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and U.S. Attorney Gregory G. Lockhart, Southern District of Ohio, announce the arrests of Vernell E. Burney, age 19, of Dayton, Ohio, and Lakeisha N. Burney, age 24, of Centerville, Ohio as the result of two federal complaints. The FBI was assisted by the Englewood Police Department, the Miami Township Police Department, the Fairborn Police Department, the Centerville Police Department and the Safe Streets Task Force.

Vernell Burney has been charged in a federal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio with three counts of violation of Title 18, U.S. Code Section 2113 (a) - Bank Robbery. Lakeisha Burney has been charged in a federal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio with four counts of violation of Title 18, U.S. Code Section 2113 (a) - Bank Robbery. Maximum punishment permitted under federal law upon conviction of each count of this crime is imprisonment for 20 years.

The federal complaint of U.S.A. v. Vernell E. Burney charges Vernell Burney with robbery of the First Day Financial Credit Union, located at 8963 Kingsridge Drive, Miamisburg, Ohio; the Wright-Patt Federal Credit Union, located at 7704 Hoke Road, Englewood, Ohio; and the Union Savings Bank, located at 2794 Colonel Glenn Highway, Fairborn, Ohio on October 9, 2007.

The federal complaint of U.S.A. v. Lakeisha Burney charges Lakeisha Burney with robbery of the First Day Financial Credit Union, located at 8963 Kingsridge Drive, Miamisburg, Ohio on October 1, 2007; and robbery of the First Day Financial Credit Union, located at 8963 Kingsridge Drive, Miamisburg, Ohio; the Wright-Patt Federal Credit Union, located at 7704 Hoke Road, Englewood, Ohio; and the Union Savings Bank, located at 2794 Colonel Glenn Highway, Fairborn, Ohio on October 9, 2007.

Vernell Burney and Lakeisha Burney appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Merz today, October 11, 2007, at the U.S. District Courthouse in Dayton, Ohio, for an Initial Appearance on the federal charges and were remanded into the custody of the U.S. Marshal's Service.

The public is reminded that criminal complaints contain only allegations of criminal misconduct and that a defendant is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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