Suspect Pleads Guilty to CU Stick-Up

BILLINGS, Mont. – One of two suspects captured last summer in Yellowstone National Park pleaded guilty to the May armed robbery at Community First CU, in Des Moines, Iowa. Justin Shrader, 24, plead guilty to charges of bank robbery and possessing a firearm during a crime for the May 8 hold-up, when he and a partner, both wearing masks and wielding sawed-off shotguns, took cash from tellers and the vault, then left a device that appeared to be an explosive in order to slow pursuit. Shrader’s alleged accomplice, Aaron Rafferty, 32, is scheduled to go on trial next week. The men bought a pick truck after the robbery then fled to Arizona and Las Vegas, before being caught in Yellowstone, after park rangers stopped to investigate a routine hit-and-run accident.