Bank robber pleads guilty in federal court
A Pittsburgh man accused of stealing nearly $120,000 in 2016, during a spree of bank robberies in the area, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court.
Gregory Magee, 48, pleaded guilty to two counts of armed bank robbery and four counts of bank robbery before a federal judge. According to a news release, Magee robbed six banks between January and November 2016, including First Niagara Bank in McMurray.
About noon March 31, 2016, he entered First Niagara at 4073 Washington Road, wearing sunglasses and gloves. He gave plastic bags to the tellers and demanded money, threatening that he had a gun. He had an open umbrella with him inside the bank and left with $9,133.
Magee wore the same type of clothing, sunglasses and gloves during the other robberies, which happened in Cranberry Township, New Castle, Pittsburgh, Beaver Falls and Monroeville. During some of them, he threatened to have a gun, a bomb, and in some cases, he showed a handgun.
When he robbed the S&T Bank in Monroeville Nov. 8, 2016, he demanded the vault be opened. He stole $78,643 from the bank and was arrested a short time later, when police found him hiding in a drainage pipe in a wooded area near the bank, according to the release.
Police found a handgun in Magee’s vehicle, but the bag with wires in it, which he had threatened was a bomb, police discovered to be Ethernet cables.
Magee’s sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 29.