BALTIMORE – A man who held up six credit unions and banks last year while on parole for an earlier series of heists was sentenced to 13 years in prison for armed robbery and violating his supervised release.
Gary Densmore, 56, was sentenced for the Feb. 14, 2011, robbery at Dakotaland FCU in Brookings, S.D., when he got away with $17,474.
Densmore also confessed to another six robberies in Maryland, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa last February and March – all while he was on supervised release for 1997 bank robbery convictions in Georgia and Florida.
In the Dakotaland robbery, Densmore entered the credit union wearing a dark winter coat and a black stocking cap. He handed a teller a handwritten note demanding cash be put in a blue zipper bag he provided. The note also stated that he had a gun.
The teller placed some cash in the bag, and Densmore left the without saying a word the entire time. Densmore was captured on March 3, 2011, in Savage, Minn., when a police officer observed a car with no front license plate backed into a parking space at a motel. A database check of the Maryland license plate found on the back of the car revealed the car had been stolen.
When police arrested Densmore that day, they found a winter coat, stocking cap and blue zipper bag that all matched those used by the robber in Brookings.
